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The Reeds at Runnymede

Magna Carta was 800 Years old in 2015. Barry Turner Explores its Origins and Explains how it came to be the Guiding Spirit for the British and American Constitutions.

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    Said by Lord Denning, (1899–1999) a leading member of the British judiciary

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    Simon Schama, A History of Britain; p. 162

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    Peter Dahlgren, The Political Web; p. 57

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(2019). The Reeds at Runnymede. In: The Statesman’s Yearbook Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95839-9_1529

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