Magna Carta

This U.S. Senate resolution designated June 15th, 1991 as "Magna Carta Day." The resolution states that June 15th, 1991 was the 776th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede by King John of England. The resolution remarks upon the significance of the document and its…

<p><span class="deck"> The fathers of American independence founded their case on “that wonderful Edward Coke … masterful, masterless man,” who made two English kings bow to the common law</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The founding fathers’ belief in the “law of the land” derived from a 13th-century document recently donated to the National Archives.</span></p>