magna charta

Example Sentences

• "My Lord Coke ſayes, It had not its name of GREAT CHARTER, from the Greatneſs of it in Quantity; for there were ſeveral Voluminous Charters, longer than this: But it was ſo called, in reſpect of the Great Importance, and Weightyneſs of the Matter; as Charta de Foresta, is called, Magna Charta de Foresta, for the ſame Cauſe; and both of them are called, Magnæ Chartæ Libertatum Angliæ; i.e. The Great Charters of the Liberties of England; and upon great Reaſon too, Quia liberos faciunt, becauſe they make us Free."
• "MAGNA CHARTA. The GREAT CHARTER, Made in the Ninth Year of King Henry the Third, and Confirmed by King Edward the Firſt in the Five and twentieth Year of his Reign."
• "From a few southern women, decorating the graves of their departed heroes, this day of the year, Memorial Day, has become a national holiday, when the nation pauses to pay tribute to those loyal patriots who died that America would be free and safe, where men and women could live their own lives, according to their own wishes, the Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, and our Constitution."
• "Another Richard, the fourth earl, signed Magna Charta in 1215 and by this time their castle on Brynbuga, with its square keep, and the round towers, was well on the way to completion."
• "In witch-trials the conflict was officially defined as between the accused and God, or between the accused and the Catholic (later Protestant) church, as God's earthly representative. There was no attempt to make this an even match. The distribution of power between accuser and accused mirrored the relations between king and serf—one had all the power and the other none of it. Once again, we encounter the theme of domination and submission. Significantly, only in England—where, beginning in the thirteenth century with the granting of the Magna Charta, there gradually developed an appreciation of the rights and dignities of those less powerful than the king—was the fury of witch hunting mitigated by legal safe-guards and social sensibilities."
• "Although the Bill of Rights was adopted as amendments to the constitution of the United States in 1791, the ideas in that noble document go back to England and the Magna Charta that King John was forced to accept by the powerful barons of England at Runnymede on June 15, 1215."