Citizenship and politics in Northern Ireland ... National Archives in Kew to discover the origins and importance of Magna Carta, which was first written in 1215.

Narrator: Some of these go all the way back to the Magna Carta, which states that everyone, up to and including the king or queen, is subject to the rule of law, they have the right to a fair ...

Magna Carta is Latin for ‘great charter' and the term was first used in 1217 to distinguish it from the Charter of the Forest, a document that also set out limits on the king's administration, this ...

In this case, the Court held that stripping someone of U.S. citizenship as a punishment for desertion ... and the principle it represents can be traced back to the Magna Carta. The basic concept ...

Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting ...