Magna Carta

The Magna Carta was indeed a revolutionary document because it was a turning point in world history where there was an end of absolute power in Britain. It established a set of laws that not even the king could violate and the same laws that applied to the lowest class of society and even to the royal families. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution states, “no person shall….be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” This quote is a direct descendent of Magna Carta’s guarantee of proceedings according to the “law of the land” which defined its important role in history. The Magna Carta was a major step toward the democracies of today, governments in which there are no monarchs but rather self-governing citizens. The document was a written guarantee for all free men to see their basic legal rights and live a life of equality. It states, “Note that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her whole rights and her liberties inviolable….” which defines that the English Church is to be free and to have all its rights fully and its liberties entirely. The Magna Carta in conclusion was a revolutionary document because it served to inspire and justify action in liberty’s defense. Its importance led to colonists believing they were entitled to the same rights as Englishmen in which they later embedded those rights into the laws of their states and later into the Constitution and Bill of Rights.