Magna Cart Differences In Modern Society

Throughout the whole article I learned that the Magna Carta made many differences in modern society. The “Magna Carta instituted a form of conciliar rule that was to develop directly into the Parliament that meets at Westminster today. As the great Victorian historian William Stubbs put it, “the whole constitutional history of England is little more than a commentary on Magna Carta.”” Magna Carta has always been a bigger deal in the U.S. The field where King John put his final touch to the parchment lies in the electoral district in the county of Surrey. His final touch was that he put that the king had to obey certain rules right above his signature. It went untouched until 1957, when a memorial stone was finally raised there by the American
Bar Association. This shows that the Great Charter was a well known document. “Eight hundred years is a long wait. We British have, by any measure, been slow to recognize what we have. Americans, by contrast, have always been keenly aware of the document, referring to it respectfully as the Magna Carta. Why? Largely because of who the first Americans were. Magna Carta was reissued several times throughout the 14th and 15th centuries, as successive Parliaments asserted their prerogatives, but it receded from public consciousness under the Tudors, whose dynasty ended with the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.” Because of the Magna Carta we now have the rights that we have today.