How Did The Magna Carta Influence Modern Day Government

During the Medieval times, Kings had all the power and never had limits before the Magna Carta in 1215. The Magna Carta changed the world's outlook on power and government significantly by changing the power structure at its time, limiting the power is essential in the modern day government, and the charter became a historic foundation for creating a government.
On June 15, 1215, at Runnymede, King John of England was forced to sign a document called the Articles of the Barons. On the 19th, just four days later, a final title was decided upon the Magna Carta. King John, who was the youngest son of Henry II, was crowned King after Richard the Lionheart was killed by a crossbow in 1199.1
As King, John raised taxes higher than any king even had previously. King John opposed the election of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was excommunicated by the Pope because of it. He later made amends with the Pope, but on May of 1215, a group of barons captured London as a sign of
The document is the first written constitution in European history but the document didn’t support the majority of the citizens. The Great Charter has a short preface and 63 clauses and was reissued 3 times after 1215. Shortly after King John dies, his nine-year-old son, Henry III reissued the document taking out the most controversial clauses to prevent any more problems. Then the Magna Carta was reissued in 1217 and lastly, in 1225, Henry III reissued it in return for a tax granted to him by the whole