Magna Carta 800th anniversary

19 June 2015 is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

seal Magna Carta was an attempt to find an antidote to the challenges from an over mighty king.

With the ideas of freedom from the Magna Carta being signed 19 June 1215,  it had been shown that not even the king was above the Common Law of the land. Over time Magna Carta became an idea which could never be uninvented, or unimagined.

Thirteen copies of Magna Carta were quickly made and sent throughout the kingdom. Magna Carta had gone viral. With so many important witnesses to the events Magna Carta to be ever denied or forgotten.

Over the course of the subsequent 800 years, the idea of Magna Carta gathered momentum and assumed a greater and greater importance around the ideas of liberty and justice. These central clauses, usually referred to as 38 and 39, have not only stood the test of time, but have a potency of their own which has seen off hundreds of attempts at annulment, repeal, modification and suspension by successive monarchs and governments. Of the original 63 original clauses three remain part of our law to this day.

Are you celebrating 800 years of liberty and justice?

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