This year marked the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the "great charter" drafted in 1215 by a group of a rebellious English barons grumpy with their king. As WorldViews observed earlier this year, the Magna Carta — a set of edicts penned in Latin on sheepskin — is seen as a foundational text of the English nation, considered […]
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