Magna Carta
Hodges
Hardcover
(Coward McCann, March 15, 1970)
"England under King John was in a state of rebellion. The King's tyrannical ways had offended the Church, the Barons, and the powerful city merchants, and everyone was seething with anger and discontent. Their only hope lay in finding a way to limit the power of the King; and so a set of laws or principles were drawn up in the form of a Charter.