After John`s death, the regency government of his young son Henry III reissued the document in 1216, without any of its more radical content, in an unsuccessful attempt to build political support for their cause. At the end of the war in 1217, it was part of the peace treaty concluded at Lambeth, where the document received the name Magna Carta to distinguish it from the smaller forest charter issued at the same time. For lack of money, Henry reissued the charter in 1225 in exchange for the granting of new taxes. His son, Edward I, repeated the practice in 1297, this time confirming that it was part of the English Status Act. The Charter became a part of English political life and was usually renewed by each monarch one after another, although over time and in the young Parliament of England it passed new laws, losing some of its practical importance. Henry symbolically emphasized the rebuilding of royal authority, but his reign was relatively limited by the Magna Carta. [119] [73] He generally acted within the framework of charters that prevented the Crown from taking extrajudicial action against the barons, including the fines and expropriations that were common under his father John. [119] [73] The Charter did not deal with the thorny issues of the appointment of royal councillors and the distribution of patronage, and these had no means of enforcement if the king ignored them. [120] The inconsistency with which he applied the statutes during his reign alienated many barons, including those of his own faction.

[73] Sir William Blackstone published a critical edition of the Charter of 1215 in 1759, giving it the numbering system still used today. [201] In 1763, MP John Wilkes was arrested for writing an incendiary pamphlet, No. * (53) We will have a similar respite when it comes to doing justice with regard to forests that need to be reforested or remain forests if they were first reforested by our father Henry or our brother Richard; with custody of the land in another person`s “Gaise”, if we have previously retained it under a “fee” on our part for the knight`s service by a third party; and with abbeys founded in the “royalty” of another person, in which the lord of the “royalty” claims to possess a right. Upon our return from the crusade, or if we abandon it, we will immediately fully address grievances regarding these matters. These clauses remain in force to this day and formed the basis of important principles of English law developed in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries and exported to America and other English-speaking countries. Their formulation “person” and “no free man” gave these provisions a universal quality that still applies today in a way that many clauses referring specifically to feudal customs are not. By the mid-15th century, the Magna Carta no longer played a central role in the political life of England, as monarchs asserted authority and power that had been contested in the 100 years following the reign of Edward I. [153] Magna Carta remained a text for jurists, particularly as protectors of property rights, and was read more than ever as print versions circulated and literacy levels increased. [154] Most of the Charter of 1215 and later attempted to regulate the feudal rights of the crown over barons. [313] Under the Angevin kings, and especially during John`s reign, the king`s rights were often used inconsistently, often for the purpose of maximizing the royal revenues of the barons. Edward I interpreted the papal bull of Clement V, which annulled the Confirmatio Cartarum, as indeed applicable to the Articuli super Cartas, although the latter was not explicitly mentioned. [140] In 1306, Edward I seized the Pope`s support to re-establish forest law over vast “deforested areas.” Both Edward and the Pope have been accused of “perjury” by some contemporary chroniclers, and it has been suggested by Robert McNair Scott that Robert Bruce refused to make peace with Edward I`s son, Edward II, in 1312, on the grounds that “How can the King of England remain faithful to me, since he does not keep sworn promises? given to his vassals.

[141][142] The following 65 people attended the 1225 edition of the Magna Carta, named in the order in which they appear in the Charter itself:[127] The radical groups that flourished during this period had different views of the Magna Carta.