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the making and legacy of the great charter

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An edition of Magna Carta (2014)

Magna Carta

the making and legacy of the great charter

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The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles--even its language--can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange charter and how did it gain such legendary status? Historian Dan Jones takes us back to the turbulent year of 1215, when, beset by foreign crises and cornered by a growing domestic rebellion, King John reluctantly agreed to fix his seal to a document that would change the course of history. At the time of its creation, the Magna Carta was just a peace treaty drafted by a group of rebel barons who were tired of the king's high taxes, arbitrary justice, and endless foreign wars. The fragile peace it established would last only two months, but its principles have reverberated over the centuries. Jones's narrative follows the story of the Magna Carta's creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England, and charts the high points in its unexpected afterlife. Reissued by King John's successors, it protected the Church, banned unlawful imprisonment, and set limits to the exercise of royal power. It established the principle that taxation must be tied to representation and paved the way for the creation of Parliament. In 1776 American patriots, inspired by that long-ago defiance, dared to pick up arms against another English king and to demand even more far-reaching rights. We think of the Declaration of Independence as our founding document, but those who drafted it had their eye on the Magna Carta.--Adapted from book jacket.

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Head of Zeus Ltd
Language
English
Pages
191

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Cover of: Magna Carta
Magna Carta: the birth of liberty
2015, Viking
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Magna Carta: the making and legacy of the great charter
2014, Head of Zeus Ltd
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (page 188) and index.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942.03/3
Library of Congress
KD3946 .J66 2014, DA208

The Physical Object

Pagination
191 pages
Number of pages
191

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31276176M
Internet Archive
magnacartamaking0000jone
ISBN 10
1781858853
ISBN 13
9781781858851, 9781781858844
LCCN
2014472271
OCLC/WorldCat
897090802

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