Was Magna Carta a landmark for human rights — or just a deal to protect wealthy barons?

In 1215, King John signed Magna Carta at Runnymede, and British schoolchildren are still taught it as the birth of democracy. But historians increasingly argue it was little more than a power grab by the elite, with ordinary people nowhere in sight.

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