At AEI on Thursday, Philip Hamburger of Columbia Law School argued that the Magna Carta is important, not so much for what it says, but for what it reveals about the enduring danger of absolute power ...

Up the River Thames 20 miles from London lies Runnymede, where King John in 1215 fixed his seal to a strip of parchment that Winston Churchill later called “the most famous milestone of our rights and ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter” — to which England’s King John affixed his seal June 15, 1215, 810 years ago Sunday — was essentially a peace treaty that was intended to end a civil war between ...

Guest Opinion. The U.S. Constitution is often thought to have originated from the intellectual musings of the Founding Fathers in a tobacco smoke-filled room in Philadelphia. The Magna Carta (1215) is ...

May 15 (Reuters) - Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection ...

The Magna Carta is widely regarded as a foundational text of the British legal system and of the United States Constitution. As an essential guarantor of basic freedoms, the Magna Carta has inspired ...

Both before and after the indictment of former President Trump, there has been a heated debate about how our polarized country should proceed. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene went so far as to call for a ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Harvard Law School recently discovered a treasure that had been hiding in its library for decade. Two ...

The good citizens of New Jersey are getting ready to deal Mayor Frank (“I Am the Law”) Hague of Jersey City the worst blow of his undisputed 27-year career as boss of the state. The weapon: a new ...