“No free man [homo liber] shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force ...

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 ...

It is crumbling, water-stained and written in Medieval Latin, but the Magna Carta has managed to remain relevant to the cause of human rights even today, 800 years after it was scrawled on parchment ...

A.E. Dick Howard has been called the “chief architect” of Virginia’s 1971 Constitution for his role in helping to draft it. He also has consulted in the birth of more than a dozen constitutions around ...

David Cameron has been criticised for using the anniversary of Magna Carta to push his political agenda to scrap the Human Rights Act. Monday marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and is regarded ...