Why Magna Carta matters | BBC History Magazine - 0 views
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The making of Magna Carta was a turning point in English constitutional history. The charter’s great achievement was to place the monarchy – the executive power – under the law.
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and the law. Some thinkers of the time said that the king was above the law: that he made the law and he enforced it, but he was not actually bound by it himself.
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In England the king is below God and below the law."
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