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‘No man shall be arrested or imprisoned
except by the judgment of their equals and by

CHARTER
the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to
no one deny or delay right or justice.’

The
Charter Magna Carta, meaning The Great
of the
Forest, Charter, is one of the most important
1217,
held by document in the world. This
the
British
document was written eight century
Library
ago, in Latin. The Magna Carta
imposed some limits to King John,
who is remembered as the worst
king of the English’s history. On 15th
The ‘Articles of the Barons’, 1215, held by the
British Library June 1215, a group of powerful
The 1225
barons of the Kingdom of England
version of
Magna
forced King John to grant it. This
Carta issued
by Henry III,
document will be a turning point for
held in
the National
human rights.
Archives 1297 version of the Great Charter, on display in
the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
 AT THE TIME OF THE The worst king in

GREAT CHARTER
England’s history

King John in June 1215 was forced to put his seal to "The
Articles of the Barons" by a group of powerful barons who
could no longer stand John's failed leadership and despotic
rules. The Magna Carta of 1215 contained clauses which
noticeably reduced the power of the king.

But, who was King John?

John, byname John Lackland, French Jean
sans Terre, (born in 1166 and died October
18/19, 1216,  Newark, Nottinghamshire,
King John, also dubbed John Lackland
England), king of England from 1199 to
1216. In a war with the French King Philip
II, he lost Normandy and almost all his
other possessions in France. In England,
after a revolt of the barons, he was forced
King John while he is putting his seal to ‘ The Articles of the Barons’
to seal the Magna Carta (1215). THE GREAT
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 THE ADVENTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF
MAGNA CARTA
‘No man shall be arrested or imprisoned except by the judgment of their equals and by the law of
the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.’

Advantages Disadvantages

Magna Carta, became the first symbol of libery But in that time, the majority part of people
in the history. weren’t ‘free-men’ but only unfree peasants
• For the first time in the hisory, to all ‘free-men’ • The peasants were in fact ruled by the
the righ to justice and a fair trial. landowners of the fields that they cultivated, so
• Springs the idea of no taxation without they were not 'free men'.
representation, and with it, the establishment of
a common council, duly embodied in
Parliament, as a means of obtaining popular
consent.

Some peasants that cultivated the fields of the landowners

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death of King
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After th

The civil war of England after Pope Inncocent III

declared the document invalid MAGNA CARTA’S
MILESTONES
The different
documents
published from
1215 to 1297
A document which has inspired, across the
centuries, the most important people from
Thomas Jefferson to Mahatma Gandhi; and the
United States Declaration of Independence and
After 800 years, the Magna Carta is still an important document the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Great Charter of 1297: statute

• The Great Charter is made part of English
law
• It’s enchoed in the most important documents
• It inspired the most relevant people of today

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NOT ALWAYS THE HUMAN RIGHT HAS BEEN
RESPECTED
Reconciliati
on Pole;
one of the
most
famous
‘episode’of
not respect
the Human
Right Many supporters of Human Right
agree that after sixty years after the
publication of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, it still
represents a dream rather than a
reality. There are violations of it all
over the world.

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THANKS FOR
THE ATTENTION
Tricarico Giulia 2°I web references:
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
-https://www.stupormundi.it/it/giovanni-senzaterra
-https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/videos/800-years-of-
magna-carta
-https://doc.studenti.it/appunti/storia/2/magna-charta-
libertatum.html
-https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/videos/what-is-magna-
carta
-https://students.ubc.ca/ubclife/what-reconciliation-pole
-https://www.osservatoriodiritti.it/2019/01/17/diritti-
umani-violati-nel-mondo-human-rights-watch/