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Churchill and the Magna Carta

Churchill at Coventry Cathedral.

Although few of its provisions survive in British law, the Magna Carta is a revered symbol of democracy, constituting the first statement of the proposition that no man, not even the king, is above the law. In 2015, on its 800th anniversary, the British Library brought together two of the four surviving copies of the Mag…