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Magna Charta   Listen
noun
Magna Charta, Magna Carta  n.  
1.
The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.
2.
Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.





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... two laws have been called the Magna Charta of the solar system, and were long supposed to guarantee its absolute permanence. So far as the theory of gravitation carries us, they do guarantee its permanence; but something more remains to be said on the subject in a future ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge
... the reader remembers the way in which I was led, while teaching the Bakwains, to commence exploration, he will, I think, recognize the hand of Providence. Anterior to that, when Mr. Moffat began to give the Bible—the Magna Charta of all the rights and privileges of modern civilization—to the Bechuanas, Sebituane went north, and spread the language into which he was translating the sacred oracles, in a new region larger than France. Sebituane, ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie
... red, and got into a towering rage, and threatened to tear up the Magna Charta to spite them all. ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed
... settlement of the crown, formed a league for mutual protection and cooperation. The very parchment on which the terms of this union were written "has been preserved as a testimony to the early independence of the Forest Cantons, the Magna Charta of Switzerland." The formation of this confederacy may be regarded as the first combined preparation of the Swiss for that great struggle in defence of their liberties, in the history of which fact and legend, as shown in Baker's ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... nobles and bishops met him at Runnymede on the river Thames, a few miles west of London, and compelled him to sign a list of promises. As the list contained sixty-three separate promises, it was called the Great Charter or Magna Charta. If John did not keep these promises, the lords and clergy agreed to make war on him, and he even said that this would ...
— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton


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