Signing of the Magna Carta
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Aristocracy, Aristocrats, Nobles, Laws, Acts, Legislation
- Curriculum: British History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
- Geographical Location: England
- Date: June 15, 1215
Article abstract: The signing of the Magna Carta is popularly remembered as the first great confrontation between the monarchy and the lower-ranking nobility in England and the root of many important judicial practices, although many of its provisions become obsolete within a few centuries of its enactment.
Summary of Event
Of the documents in which the constitutional tradition of the English-speaking peoples is enshrined, the Magna Carta is, if not the oldest, the first to have won for itself a place in the public memory. The sixty-three chapters of the...
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