Friday, June 15, 2012
TIH: 1215 Magna Charta
June 15, 1215: English noblemen forced King John to sign a document recognizing individual rights and limits on royal power. This momentous occasion was the official start of the Anglo-American constitutional ideas of the rule of law, individual rights and limits on government power.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
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