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The Magna Carta (1215) limited the power of the English king and influenced democracy. Power met constraints.

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Magna Carta forced the monarch to accept limits and recognized certain legal protections for subjects (initially for elites). Over time it became a powerful symbol for rule of law and constraints on executive authority.

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