Tag Archive: Students With Failing Knowledge of U.S. History Miss Significance of Magna Carta

Students With Failing Knowledge of U.S. History Miss Significance of Magna Carta

Students With Failing Knowledge of U.S. History Miss Significance of Magna Carta by by Jamie Gass “John, John, bad King John Shamed the throne that he sat on; … So the Barons brought a Deed; Down to rushy Runnymede, Magna Carta was its hight, Charter of the People’s Right, Framed and fashioned to correct Kings who act with disrespect –” -Eleanor Farjeon, Bad King John, 1940 June marks the 800th anniversary of 25 medieval English barons forcing King John to affix his beeswax seal to the calfskin parchment of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, among the oldest and most important… View Article