British Churches Assert Magna Carta’s Christian Heritage

British Churches Assert Magna Carta’s Christian Heritage  —  The Magna Carta is the 13th-century document enshrining the rights, privileges and liberties of the clergy and the nobles.  Considered a founding document for human rights, it enumerates the church’s right to appoint its own clergy, bishops and archbishops following a bitter church-state row about who should be archbishop of Canterbury.