What has the role of the Magna Carta been in world history?
The Magna Carta has inspired the authors of many other important documents in world history. The American Revolution: When the American colonies declared their independence from the UK in 1776, their leaders issued a document called the Declaration of Independence, which laid out the ways they felt the British king, George III, had abused their rights. The list included complaints that George had interfered with the right of the colonies’ assemblies to meet and pass laws; denied the colonists the right to trial by jury; imposed taxes on the colonies without their consent; and kept a standing army, including foreign mercenaries, in the colonies.[10] All of these actions violated the rights outlined in the Magna Carta. More importantly, the Declaration stated that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future s
