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 Free Press Statute of 1812, Magna Charta of Swedish journalism, is one of the four basic laws of Sweden.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I, of Magna Charta, which has a magnificent impression of the beautiful great seal.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
