What is the Magna Carta All About?

Jun 3rd 2010, 21:10

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The Term Explained, Its Usage and Relevance: The term Magna Carta (Great Charter) after its confrontational beginnings at Runnymede, England between a tyrannical king and his libertarian subjects in the early 13th century of the previous millennium, has been popularized by peoples throughout the world. Subsequent “great charters” have contributed to the evolutionary development of contemporary universal human rights concepts. These include the French Declaration of the Rights of Man (L’Droits d’l’Homme) and the Second Amendment to the American Constitution better known as the Bill of Rights. Despite or perhaps due to its limited context and concepts, the English Magna Carta had become the catchword for any codification of specific sectoral rights and privileges