It’s remarkable that the English-speaking world remembers Magna Carta. The product of a struggle between King John and his barons, it was sealed on the bank of the Thames 800 years ago ...

That clause related to the rights of 25 barons to oversee the rights granted to them in Magna Carta, and if the chief justice or any of his officials "offend[ed] in any respect against any man ...

The barons just had to pay up ... and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established that the king was subject to the laws of ...

The original Magna Carta dates back to 1215. According to Wikipedia, it was a royal charter signed at Runnymede near Windsor to make peace between King John of England and a group of rebel barons.

Let’s keep Magna Carta alive. Because – as those barons showed, all those years ago – what we do today will shape the world, for many, many years to come.

To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by King John, was a royal charter of rights designed to bring peace between the King and his barons. Although it is one of the foundational documents of English law ...

Magna Carta curtailed this divine right and issued ... 1215 as a peace treaty between King John and a group of rebellious barons. The original document was written in Latin on parchment made ...