大宪章 !史话

　　We ta@?!_ke our lib]@*[erties for gr/anted . They seem absolute!^.#: an$:!+.d +untouchable. But they a[r!e th^e res )[ult o%f a ser^.-ies= o]$@f vio\[lent str`#ug)g.le:%s fought over 800 year_?s that, a
]=t times, have ?
[threa^tened to tear ]@,` :]our soc.?i
ety apart. On ,the frontli$ne was a );document originally inked on -animal=! ski!n
(? – M,( ag_[na Carta.
+ Disti_nguished@% c^);$onst^*,itutional his
# torian D;^a.v(id St$[a(?r key looks
( +at th_* :e origi ns o-$
f the Great C) hart(er )*!%in 12%@`15 to check the
\! abuses of King Joh/ n *]- and :]@ how i?t n\
early .-d=_[i[ ed
/^_at birth. He :explores its subsequent dep,loyment, its contr:$(%i;*u\^tion to m_aking everyone – even the mo#+narch – subject t!;(o the rule of []?/la]w, an$(=d how this \@qu/ intes-,[senti
] ally) *\Engl.i;sh ! document(,
[ migr%ated to [#the North A%m`erica^//n colonies and@ eventually became _(/the foundation ]% of! the US cons/ti+)t:]ut#%_ion. -Magna/ Cart,: -a has become a univers@
al symb?=ol ?of individual fr e^!edo \m a:gainst the tyra[nny of th?e state, but with e+ver-tightening gover]nment c-(o?nt`:_r.ol on=% o-:ur lives, is it time to resurrect it?