The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, in cooperation with several other ABA entities, has created a magnificent traveling exhibit on Magna Carta, that most powerful document signed by King John in Runnymeade 800 years ago in 1215.
The Magna Carta has been identified as the source of many fundamental freedoms and principles, including:
the right to a jury trial,
the right to speedy trial,
freedom from unlawful imprisonment,
protection from unlawful seizures of property,
the principle of no taxation without representation, and
the rule of law that even kings cannot ignore.
The traveling exhibit is great and you will have many opportunities to see it around the country. Looking at the exhibit here is former ABA President Laurel Bellows, who viewed the exhibit at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Houston.
