Magna Charta

The Magna Charta is a comprehensive bill of rights, and, though crude in form, and with many clauses of merely local value, its spirit still lives and will live.

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens

The above two laws have been called the Magna Charta of the solar system, and were long supposed to guarantee its absolute permanence.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

Perhaps it would be straining words to call a transaction in which the consent was so one-sided a "contract," but the idea of Magna Charta was derived from that of the town charters with which people were already familiar.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

The great basis of it is anterior to the date of the Magna Charta, which is the oldest statute extant.

Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829

(answering what is called the Magna Charta of England) fixing the number and manner of choosing Members of Congress, Members of

Common Sense 2002

The Barons and their cause were to be sacrificed to the Pope's interest, and the Legate commanded them to lay down their arms; they were however bold enough to make head against this powerful league, and by their steady opposition to the King, and their moderate demands when their efforts were crowned with success, immortalized their names: John was obliged to sign out two famous charters -- the first called Magna Charta, or the Charter of Liberties; the second the Charter of Forests; which two charters have since been the foundation of the liberties of this nation.

A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

The conferring members being met, let their business be to frame a CONTINENTAL CHARTER, or Charter of the United Colonies; (answering to what is called the Magna Charta of England) fixing the number and manner of choosing members of Congress, members of Assembly, with their date of sitting, and drawing the line of business and jurisdiction between them: (Always remembering, that our strength is continental, not provincial:) Securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; with such other matter as is necessary for a charter to contain.

Common Sense 1776

He had a family crest, for Chrissakes, a bedragoned atavistic blazon that predated the Magna Charta.

Under the Buttonwood Tree (Excerpt) Joshua Moses 2011

The original of that clause paragraph 29 of Magna Charta expressly said that “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or ... in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010

The original of that clause paragraph 29 of Magna Charta expressly said that “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or ... in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Opinio Juris Discussions of Targeting of US Citizen 2010