The image of Magna Carta being grudgingly given by a cornered tyrant still remains. |
The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process. |
Nineteenth-century popular movements for parliamentary reform such as Chartism turned to Magna Carta for support. |
That would take us back to the dark ages, to the period prior to the Magna Carta. |
Well, you see, the lords and barons swore their oath to make the king sign the Magna Carta at Bury St Edmunds. |
Other candidates include the ship burial at Sutton Hoo, the Lindisfarne Gospels, Magna Carta, the Domesday Book and the Isle of Lewis chessmen. |