Magna Carta

ISBN-13: 9780582438262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 282 str.

Ralph Turner

Opis

This survey tells the story of the Magna Carta through the ages, tracing its continuing importance in England's political consciousness. It underlines the charter's great influence outside the United Kingdom, especially in North America and argues that it enjoys greater prestige in the United States, the land of lawyers, than in Britain. US citizens claim Magna Carta as a source of their liberties, guaranteeing due process of law and condemning executive privelege.

Spis treści

Introduction: Magna Carta: disentangling history from myth 1. England under the Angevin kings: Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John 2. King John's reign 3. The making and unmaking of Magna Carta, 1215 4. The first century of Magna Carta 5. Magna Carta in the later middle ages and the Tudor period 6. Magna Carta's revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7. Magna Carta in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 8. Magna Carta in the New World Works cited in notes Other useful works Index

O autorze

Ralph Turner