The Magna Carta
In Our Time
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The Perception of Magna Carta
Magna Carta is a huge distance away from what he was in 2015. The basic idea that any ruling authority must be subject to law, still a very vexed question today. It would be in England now to guess by lawyers, taken more seriously by American lawyers than by English lawyers. And I think some of the great barons would have foreseen it too.
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