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 ...
Magna Carta's clauses provided the basis for important principles in English law developed in the fourteenth through to the seventeenth century. The phrases ‘to no one' and ‘no free man' gave these ...