Magna Charta
- 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
In eight revolutionary new decrees, FCC offered what it called a "Magna Charta for American broadcasting stations."
From Time Magazine Archive
After six conference-jammed days Sir Stafford called in the press, read them India's Magna Charta and answered questions for two hours, taking off his coat and getting down to India's future in his shirt sleeves.
From Time Magazine Archive
I revere that conquest which has given to Ireland the common law and the Magna Charta of England.
From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely
