The nation rejoiced in the freedom of thought of which the great charter was the Reformation.

That's where King John petitioned to put his seal on the first great charter in 1215.

Then the Government discovered the vulnerable spot in our great charter, the Achilles heel of the Constitution.

Why has the Bill of Rights been called the "third great charter of English liberty"?

The great charter was often violated.

Yet the great charter contained no establishment of new courts, magistrates, or senates, nor abolition of the old.

Our speech is our great charter.

The BBC's John Maguire reports from Runnymede, where King John petitioned and sealed the first great charter in 1215.

Holland and Zealand compelled her to sign a great charter, which secured to them the most important sovereign rights.

The greatest strain to which this great charter has been subjected in the past hundred years has been occasioned by slavery.

Our authority to take care of them is founded in the Constitution; else it is not worthy to be our great charter.

The Sermon on the Mount is the great charter of mankind, its teachings the highest wisdom for all times and all climes.

We plunged into the wave with the great charter of freedom in our teeth, because the fagot and the torch were behind us.

These laws they called Magna Carta, or the great charter; and they all came in armor, and took John by surprise at Windsor.

The document thus represents Congressional nonpartisan activity at its best, as should ever be the case in our fidelity to this great charter.

This alone gave birth to those other articles, seemingly exorbitant, which were added as a rampart for the safeguard of the great charter.