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Founding Documents: Magna Carta

Civics 101

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The Importance of Magna Carta

Magna Carta was at hand when colonists organized their first act of political rebellion. Joel Collins, lawyer and law professor at South Carolina Honors College: Magna Carta is essential to Americans' case. The phrase taxation without representation became a rallying cry of the colonists who believed that the British government had broken its contract.

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