Magna Carta Argumentative Essay

The Magna Carta also known as the “The Great Charter” is a document that King John of England agreed to in the 15th June 1215 that was to create peace and avert rebellion from the barons. King John agreed to this document as a solution due to the escalating rebellion threats by the England barons due to the unproductive foreign policies and tax systems he imposed. The threat of rebellion started was from the decreasing prestige of King John that began in 1208 when he began a disagreement with Pope Innocent III. His prestige continued to decrease when he imposed heavy taxation on barons who did not support him in a military war that he lost against France in 1213 (Painter, 1979). Stephen Langton, the archbishop of Canterbury, however, pushed for the

The Magna Carta addressed the complaints about the rights to ownership of land, the judicial system regulations, and the medieval taxation with no modern equivalence imposed (Hudson, 2014). The document also required that fish barrages from the Thames, the sacking of some royal servants and the regulation of quantifying instruments such as weights. The document demanded that taxation was not to be done without the approval of the realm constituted of the land barons and the church leaders. The resulting document thus had clauses that were majorly on the rights of baron property owners and other influential citizens of the country and also some limited plans of the people who created the document. As a result, the welfare and desires of the influential wealthy classes were taken care of with the majority of the population of England not benefiting from the document. The Magna Carta is famously known for being the first document that required every England citizen, even the king himself to be subject to the