This article informs the constitutional context for the Parliament topic in AQA AS Unit 1, OCR AS Unit G152 and WJEC AS Unit 2, and for the juries/lay magistrates topics in AQA AS Unit 1, OCR AS G151 and WJEC AS Unit 1. It provides examples for the law and justice, concepts of law topic in AQA A2 Unit 4. It may also provide context for WJEC A2 Units 3 and 4 options on freedom, the state and individuals.
Magna Carta arouses deep emotions. Eminent jurist Edward Coke (1552–1634) claimed that it provided the ‘principal grounds of the fundamental laws of England’. English historian Henry Hallam (1777–1859) described it as the ‘keystone of English liberty’, and politician and Prime Minister William Pitt ‘the Elder’ (1708–78) referred to its significance as part of ‘the Bible of the English Constitution’.
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