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"The Magna Carta is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215. It was translated into vernacular French as early as 1219, and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions. The later versions excluded the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority that had been present in the 1215 charter. The charter first passed into law in 1225; the 1297 version, with the long title (originally in Latin) "The Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest," still remains on the statute books of England and Wales."
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Original
[edit]For one version in its Latin original, see la:Magna Carta.
English-language translations
[edit]Listed at Magna Carta
Works about the Magna Carta
[edit]- "The Pope and Magna Charta" by in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1658) (8th March, 1876)
- "Magna Carta," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
Verse
[edit]- The Curse of the Charter-Breakers, by John Greenleaf Whittier
- The Reeds of Runnymede, 1911 by Rudyard Kipling
See also
[edit]- Portal:Constitutional documents
- Portal:Constitution of the United Kingdom
- Portal:United Kingdom
- Portal:England