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    Magna Carta was a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England in 1215 that promised protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment for barons, access to swift justice, and limitations on payments owed to the Crown. It was reissued several times by King John's successors to build political support but was condemned by the Pope and led to war between the king and barons. The charter eventually became part of English law and was renewed by subsequent monarchs.

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    Magna Carta was a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England in 1215 that promised protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment for barons, access to swift justice, and limitations on payments owed to the Crown. It was reissued several times by King John's successors to build political support but was condemned by the Pope and led to war between the king and barons. The charter eventually became part of English law and was renewed by subsequent monarchs.

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    Magna Carta was a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England in 1215 that promised protection of church rights, protection from illegal imprisonment for barons, access to swift justice, and limitations on payments owed to the Crown. It was reissued several times by King John's successors to build political support but was condemned by the Pope and led to war between the king and barons. The charter eventually became part of English law and was renewed by subsequent monarchs.

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    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "Great


    Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna
    Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"),[a] is
    a royal charter[4][5] of rights agreed to by King John of
    England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June
    1215.[b] First drafted by Archbishop of
    Canterbury Stephen Langton to make peace
    between the unpopular king and a group of
    rebel barons, it promised the protection of church
    rights, protection for the barons from illegal
    imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations
    on feudal payments to the Crown, to be
    implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither
    side stood behind their commitments, and the
    charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to
    the First Barons' War.
    After John's death, the regency government of his
    young son, Henry III, reissued the document in
    1216, stripped of some of its more radical content, in
    an unsuccessful bid to build political support for their
    cause. At the end of the war in 1217, it formed part
    of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where the
    document acquired the name Magna Carta, to
    distinguish it from the smaller Charter of the
    Forest which was issued at the same time. Short of
    funds, Henry reissued the charter again in 1225 in
    exchange for a grant of new taxes. His son, Edward
    I, repeated the exercise in 1297, this time confirming
    it as part of England's statute law. The charter
    became part of English political life and was typically
    renewed by each monarch in turn, although as time
    went by and the fledgling Parliament of
    England passed new laws, it lost some of its
    practical significance.

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