There was little to indicate that we were near the spot where, 800 years ago, King John agreed to a peace treaty with his rebellious barons. Today we call that agreement Magna Carta. If we had ...

To try to keep the peace with rebellious barons and landowners, King John agreed to the Magna Carta in 1215. It was the first written document that established the rule of law and limited the king ...

It was nearly 800 years ago, after all, on June 15, 1215, that a group of noblemen presented the first version of Magna Carta to King John at Runnymede, just over 20 miles west of London on the ...

The barons in thirteenth century England put a collar on King John and forced him to respect the limits on his power. It’s not clear if the courts and the political system today can do the same for ...

And on 15 June, 1215, they met the king at Runnymede, by the Thames in Surrey, and demanded he sign a peace treaty Magna Carta. John agreed, and for the first time the principle was established ...

Where? In Sweden. In operation 73 years after King John signed the Magna Carta and more than 200 years before Columbus discovered America, Sweden’s Stora Kopparberg Bergslags Aktiebolag has ...

Dr. Kaye Whitehead examines the end of America's representative democracy and suggests a new path forward. Learn about ASALH's response.

Signed at Runnymede on June 15, 1215, the Great Charter was an agreement between King John and his barons ... A good summary of the significance of Magna Carta was published by the British ...

King John was one of the most rotten rulers of the lot ... just a year before his rotten death, he signed the Magna Carta in 1215 - the greatest thing to come out of his reign and a document that ...