Do they teach this in school today? Many years ago it was.
The Magna Carta was signed reluctantly by King John of England on 6/15/1215. It was written to limit the King's power & safeguard basic freedoms. Just like our Constitution was written to limit the dictatorial power we now experience under Obama. Enter Pope Innocent III to proclaim it invalid in 8/1215. & just like our King, Obama has ignored our Constitution & expanded his executive powers. The Magna Carter survived, & became the foundation of our Constitution.
"Yet, in 2015, the anniversary of the signing of this illustrious document will pass with barely a whimper. The primary reasons for this is the claim by revisionist academics and historians that the Magna Carta is nothing more than a myth."
This article highlights the pre-revisionist historian Alexis de Tocqueville. According to him "the Magna Carta had a 'magic' that allowed it to be more than words scribbled on parchment."
"In a time when authoritarianism and absolutism would come to dominate Europe, the English regarded their Great Charter as something unique and extremely special. It reinforced the idea that they were a free people; destined to free themselves from the yoke of tyranny. They understood that only a people dedicated to the philosophy of individual freedom, limited government, representative democracy, and the rule of law could produce such a document in the thirteenth century."
"This magic gave the Magna Carta the power of being a self-fulfilling prophecy. The principles that it came to symbolize would become the foundation of freedom in every English-speaking nation. The ideas it represented would create such monumental documents as the Declaration of Rights of 1688, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Documents that are at the heart of what we consider today to be fundamental human rights."
"Instead of neglecting the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, it should serve as a reminder that the struggle of the individual against arbitrary power has been a long one and that it is still not over."
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/the_uniqueness_of_the_magna_carta_in_human_history.html
