Earlier this year, parents Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine from Hertfordshire were arrested in front of their children over ...

For centuries the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," has been held up as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy. It was signed, or more accurately sealed, by England's King John on June 15, 1215, ...

Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30.But two researchers have concluded it ...

Law Library Special Collections Rare Book Room Exhibits Exploring Magna Carta This is the first printed edition of Bracton, which had circulated in manuscript for centuries. This edition was printed ...

Scholars for decades believed Harvard's document was a copy written in 1327. In 1946, Harvard Law School purchased an early copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. Even adjusting to about $451 in today’s ...

Harvard Law School’s ‘cheap copy’ of Magna Carta was shown to be an original - Harvard Law School/Lorin Granger A copy of Magna Carta bought by Harvard University for just $27 in the 1940s is an ...

LONDON — Eight centuries ago, a peace treaty came into being that would become a pillar of English law and the basis of constitutional democracies in the United States and around the world hundreds of ...

The British Library is now showing original manuscripts of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the first time they've come to the United Kingdom. But those documents are not ...

The idea that our rights are rooted in history is hugely attractive in anxious times. Liberty is the natural and enduring state of humanity, according to our hopeful modern interpretation of Magna ...

This year is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Most Americans have heard of Magna Carta, but few know its history or the role it plays today in Anglo–American constitutional law. Fewer still know ...