U.K history and culture: Magna Carta


Issued in 1215, the Magna Carta is one of the most famous documents in English history. It is often considered the cornerstone of freedom, democracy and English law, and it has left in the world a sustainable universal influence. The original Magna Carta brought a practical solution to the political crisis of the reign of King John; it laid the legal principles of the sixty three original articles which are still valid. What makes the critical importance of the charter is that it imposed for the first time royal authority detailed written restrictions on taxation, feudal rights and justice, and has reaffirmed the power of customary practice to limit injustice and arbitrariness Royal. Essentially, it is the Magna Carta, which established the principle that the king is not above the law but must govern by respecting it.
The Magna Carta is not a single original document on which King John affixed his seal before his barons at Runnymede in 1215. The agreement was concluded orally confirmed oath and put in writing later in the form of royal charter by the king's scribes. from Many copies of the charter were shipped across the country in June 1215, but only four of these originals are kept: two at the British Library, one in the archives of the
Lincoln Cathedral and in those of Salisbury Cathedral. The enactment of the Magna Carta is one of the most famous episodes of history England. The four surviving examples are symbols of the British way of life and
icons of freedom and democracy, with sustainable universal impact.

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