Magna Carta
noun
the “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215.
Magna Charta
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a variation of
Magna Carta.
Example Sentences
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He crafted a list of explicit rights in the same vein as the Magna Charta, like the one he had helped George Mason write for Virginia ten years earlier.
From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2018
Madison himself complained that, as for “trial by jury, freedom of the press, or liberty of conscience . . . Magna Charta does not contain any one provision for the security of those rights.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015
The latest is Tom Hayden, 48, who rose to New Left prominence as the drafter of the 1962 Port Huron Statement, the Magna Charta of the Students for a Democratic Society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let me read you a few more extracts from the "Magna Charta" of human liberty.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
