Archive | June, 2015

This month, on June 15, 2015, we celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, the famous English document that secured our liberties and rule by law. The Magna Carta was an agreement between King John and a group of rebel English barons in response to “years of the King’s misrule and excessive taxation” and, for the first time in history, placed the rule of the law above that of the King’s desires, stressing democracy and equality over the whims of the all-powerful elite. The document was signed… read more