The resulting document, the Magna Carta, has become...
King John died in ...
After being reissued several times, Magna Carta became ...
If the barons didn't pay their taxes...
The two sides met at ...
The Pope declared the charter ...
The most famous clause said ...
The taxes paid for ...
King John imposed heavy taxes on...
Most people at the time were ...
Henry III ...
Magna Carta is echoed in ...
Possibly its most important legacy is ...
... part of English law.
...his barons.
... 1216.
... the United States Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
... not free men but were unfree peasants.
... No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any other way ruined, nor will we go against him or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
... succeeded his father, King John, to the throne.
...expensive foreign wars.
... that everybody, including our leaders, must obey the law.
... a powerful symbol of liberty around the world.
... invalid which caused a civil war.
... Runnymead.
...they were severely punished.