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Trivia about magna carta

  • Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers"
  • Anglicanism got its name from the Latin "Anglicana Ecclesia", a phrase in this 13th century document
  • In accepting this charter, King John acknowledged that he too was subject to the law of the land
  • King John's failure to honor this document in 1215 led to a rebellion by the barons
  • (Alex Trebek reads from England.) In 1214 barons fed up with King John met at the abbey whose ruins we see here; the result a year later was this charter
  • The idea of due process of law dates from this 1215 document
  • John died in October 1216, probably still stewing over this document he'd agreed to 16 months before
  • U.S. Constitution,Universal Declaration of Human Rights,Magna Carta,Gettysburg Address
  • The museum once housed 2 copies of this 1215 document, now in the British Library
  • Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, influenced the writing of this "great charter" of liberties
  • The Earls of Arundel & Warren got their names on this 1215 document along with King John
  • This 1215 document included standards for measuring wine & grain
  • Pope Innocent III issued a bull to annul this document agreed to by King John in 1215 -- didn't work
  • In 1222 the Golden Bull of Hungary gave rights to nobles, like this English charter 7 years before
  • June15, 1215:At Runnymede, King John puts his seal on this document
  • In 1984, for $1.5 million, Ross Perot bought one of the only 17 known copies of this historic British document
  • Clause 39 in this document of 63 articles was the beginning of the principle of due process of law
  • Guidelines for sheriffs & village constables were established in this important document in 1215
  • Article 40 of this 1215 document stated, "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice"
  • One of the 63 articles in this 1215 document granted the English Church freedom from royal interference
  • Don't sneeze & use one of the 2 extant "originals" of this 1215 document at the British Library to wipe your nose
  • This 1215 document "served as a wake-up call that Europe would be forced to answer...in about 500 years"
  • This 1215 agreement placed the king under English law & limited his power
  • It begins "John, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy & Aquitaine...."
  • To correct medieval abuses in trade, this 1215 document standardized measurements for wine & grain

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