Magna Carta Research Guide

As civil liberties and the rule of law are increasingly brought into question throughout the world, leading medieval historian Geoffrey Hindley breathes vivid life into the story behind the signing of Magna Carta, and reveals the undiminished significance of this ancient document in today’s world.

In the Supreme Court's 2008 ruling on whether Guantanamo detainees could be barred from U.S. courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy cited the U.S. Constitution, but he also linked the decision to the Magna Carta. Why would he invoke a document signed by an English king in the 13th century? To address this, as Robert Pallitto does in this clarifying book, is to probe the history of modern civil liberties, and to explore the process by which judges decide individual rights cases.

This classic study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, offers the most authoritative analysis of England's most famous constitutional text. The book sets the events of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

This book explores the context in which Magna Carta was issue to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document.

Magna Carta holds a special place in the popular imagination of the English. This, the first major book to explore the great political vision that lay behind it, uncover the mystery of its origins, and charts its enduring relevance through the centuries.

Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.

This book tells the enthralling, ultimately inspirational, story of Magna Carta in a concise and readable fashion and will captivate laymen and lawyers alike.

First Irish edition, issued the same year as the first London edition. This edition not in the British Museum Catalogue or Sweet & Maxwell. The author of introduction cannot be Samuel Johnson, as it refers to events later than 1703, including "our present unhappy disputes with the Americans, and the contest between the administration and Mr. Wilkes" from the 1760s.

Full title: English liberties, or, The free-born subject's inheritance : containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, the statute De Tallagio non Concedendo, the Habeas Corpus Act, and several other statutes, with comments on each of them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money : Of Tonnage and Poundage : Of Parliaments, and the Qualifications and Choice of Members : Of the Three Estates, and of the Settlement of the Crown by Parliament. Together with A short History of the Succession, not by any hereditary Right : Also a Declaration of the Liberties of the Subject : And of the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy. The Petition of Right ; with a short but impartial relation of the Difference between King Charles I. and the Long Parliament, concerning the Prerogative of the King, the Liberties of the Subject, and the Rise of the Civil Wars. Of Trials by Juries, and of the Qualifications of Jurors ; their Punishment for Misbehaviour, and of Challenges to them. Lastly, Of Justices of the Peace, and Coroners : With many Law-Cases throughout the Whole.

Full title: An historical essay on the Magna Charta of King John : to which are added, the Great Charter in Latin and English ; the charters of liberties and confirmations, granted by Henry III. and Edward I. ; the original Charter of the Forests ; and various authentic instruments connected with them : explanatory notes on their several privileges ; a descriptive account of the principal originals and editions extant, both in print and manuscript ; and other illustrations, derived from the most interesting and authentic sources