Magna Carta 
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SOURCE: NYT
10-14-15
Magna Carta Exhibition in China Is Abruptly Moved From University
A public showing of one of the few surviving copies of the 13th-century document was shifted to the British ambassador’s residence, with no explanation given.
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7-26-15
This Is What the Media Forgot to Mention About Magna Carta
by Dr Gillian Polack
It wasn’t the first written document of its kind.
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SOURCE: ITV News
6-15-15
Magna Carta is a 'Russell Brand' moment claims historian David Starkey
"I find it extraordinary that we're dragging the poor Queen here to commemorate the second greatest humiliation in the history of the monarchy."
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SOURCE: Democracy Now
6-15-15
Historian Peter Linebaugh says Magna Carta provisions were violated at Guantanamo Bay (interview)
"You take chapter 39 of Magna Carta, probably the most famous clause. That is, you can still find it on courthouses in the United States. You can still find it in old constitutional books. It prohibits torture."
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SOURCE: NYT
6-14-15
Stop Revering Magna Carta
by Tom Ginsburg
The document’s fame rests on huge myths. But those myths have become their own reality.
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SOURCE: NYT
6-14-05
Magna Carta, Still Posing a Challenge at 800
The problem is that scholars say the great charter settled a fight between a king and his lords. Democracy? Pashaw.
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SOURCE: Open Culture
3-24-15
The History & Legacy of Magna Carta Explained in Animated Videos by Monty Python’s Terry Jones
Even those who paid next to no attention to their history teachers know about Magna Carta — or at least they know it first came about in 1215.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6-3-15
Why Magna Carta was fundamentally a financial peace treaty
by Jane Frecknall-Hughes
The 1215 Magna Carta contained some 63 clauses, more than 50 of which reflected various contemporary fiscal grievances.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
4-16-15
The Rule of History
by Jill Lepore
Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the hold of time.
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SOURCE: The Nation
3-23-15
Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It
by Noam Chomsky
The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3-16-15
From fascism to parking tickets – some odd Magna Carta moments
Eight hundred years after King John made history when he fixed his seal to the Magna Carta, the public is being re-introduced to one of the most famous documents in political history.
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SOURCE: Metro
2-8-15
Lost copy of Magna Carta discovered in the archives of a county council in England
An edition of the Magna Carta which could be worth up to £10 million has been found after it lay forgotten in a council’s archives.
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