Magna Carta
The original Magna Carta had 63 clauses but only 3 of the clauses are still valid today. The first copy of the Magna Carta was destroyed in a fire and the Magna Carta is important because it was the first grant by the English King to set detailed limits on royal authority.The Magna Carta was sealed by King John on June 15,1215. Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history. Magna Carta took away Kings' authority away, guaranteed English political and civil liberties, protected the rights of the people, can only be punished by peers.
King John was known as being wicked and greedy. King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta by the English Barons because of his despotic rule and forcing him to make a number of personal rights and privileges. By 1215, thanks to years of unsuccessful foreign policies and heavy taxation demands, England's King John was facing down a possible rebellion by the country's powerful barons. He agreed to a charter of liberties known as the Magna Carta (or Great Charter) that would place King John and all of England's future sovereigns within a rule of law. Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of subjects.
When the first Magna Carta was made, it was water- stained, crumpled and written in Medieval Latin. The Magna Carta has been able to remain some of the human rights today. 800 years after it was sprawled on parchment and affirmed with the sticky wax seal of the English king.
The 3 clauses that are still a law today are:
1) Defends the freedom of rights of the English church
2) Confirms the liberties and customs of London and other towns
3) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with the force against him. Except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.
1) Defends the freedom of rights of the English church
2) Confirms the liberties and customs of London and other towns
3) No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with the force against him. Except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.