What does MC stand for?

HERE in Bath, from spring to autumn, large numbers of schoolchildren are brought by their teachers from across Europe, not just to see the Georgian architecture or even the Jane Austen Centre, but to read a written extract from the Magna Carta.

Article 20 of Magna Carta is unambiguous: you cannot deprive a man of the tools of his trade, in this case the McBrides' fishing boat.

A copy of the Magna Carta is the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley.

Topics include the significance of the Magna Carta for English constitutionalism; the "ancient constitution" and the sources of the common law jurisprudence of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the traditions of constitutional discourse involved in the 17th century struggle between the English Parliament and the English Crown, and the manifestations of common law and ancient constitutionalism in legal thought from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the founding of the United States.

The Magna Carta is back at the National Archives in Washington.

Latin for "great charter," the Magna Carta, drafted by King John at Runnymede, England, in 1215 has come to be called Magna Carta Libertatum ("Great Charter of Freedoms.

Byline: GODFREY BARKER (1) Touchstone of liberty:prospective buyers look at the Magna Carta sealed in anargon-filled box at Sotheby's in New York.

Only 17 original copies of the Magna Carta are known to survive.