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.
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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...
Source: Chronology of European History, ©1997 Salem Press, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.
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