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
A few years later Kamehameha III signed the "Hawaiian Magna Charta," thus paved the way for parliamentary government.
From Time Magazine Archive
That, too, marks a great step forward which only requires more careful definition and elaboration to become a real Magna Charta of nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
While it is the custom to talk much of Magna Charta and to praise its wonderful influence there are very few people who have ever actually read its provisions.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
