ON HISTORY: WHY HAS THE MAGNA CARTA LASTED?

Posted on 2009-04-17 by Richard Careaga


But above all, it permits the barons legal right to revolt if the monarch fails to abide by his Runnymede deal. In vivid language, the king allows them to ‘distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, with the support of the whole community of the land, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, or anything else saving only our own person and those of the queen and our children, until they have secured such redress as they have determined upon.’”

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