LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...
An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England. The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first ...
Magna Carta: Think of a time when the king's word was law and no one could question it. That's how it worked for hundreds of years. But in June 1215, something amazing happened at Runnymede, England.