WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Magna Carta stated that the king must follow the law and could not simply rule as he wished. It was one of the first documents to state that citizens had such rights. Today many people consider Magna Carta to be the first written constitution in Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -Magna Carta This document guarantees Barons their ancient rights: No new taxes unless a common counsel agrees. All free men have the right to justice and a fair trial with a jury. The Monarch doesn’t have absolute power.

Detailed explanation-3: -A charter was a written document that set out the privileges and rights of the town. The merchants who set up a new town, in order to protect their interests, would ask the local lord, or the king himself, for a charter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Magna Carta originated as an unsuccessful attempt to achieve peace between royalist and rebel factions in 1215, as part of the events leading to the outbreak of the First Barons’ War. England was ruled by King John, the third of the Angevin kings.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Magna Carta, or Great Charter, is a series of concessions that English noblemen extracted from King John I at Runnymede, England, in 1215, and that some later monarchs reissued.