Discover what is the Magna Carta, a pivotal 1215 document that laid the groundwork for individual rights and the rule of law.

Two climate activists have damaged the glass protecting the Magna Carta, Britain’s monumental 13th-century document that limited royal authority and ensured individual rights.

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta” The Wagner Act—or, more formally, the National Labor ...

An authentic Magna Carta sold in 2007 for $21.3 million. The Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in history and deeply influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution.

Its tattered and faded copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimated - though Harvard has no plans to sell it. A 1297 version of the Magna Carta sold at auction in 2007 ...

In 1946, the library of Harvard Law School purchased a tattered document for $27.50. Records described it as a “rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta, Britain’s 1215 charter that ...

Predictable rule of law . . . plus individual freedom. When government is limited, people are free to try better things. The Wright brothers didn’t invent a plane because Congress issued a grant.

Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection of ...

Harvard Law School bought a 1327 copy of the Magna Carta from legal book dealer Sweet & Maxwell for $27.50 in 1946. Nearly eight decades later, two researchers have discovered it's actually an ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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.