Exploring the Legacy of Magna Carta with Students through Historic Images
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
The medieval English charter known as Magna Carta was intended as a local political document, created to make peace between England's King John and his barons in the early thirteenth century. However, it carried within it powerful ideas about the limits of government and the importance of individual liberty, and its influence has spread across the centuries and around the globe.
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