The Significance of the Magna Carta: Lecture by Walter Johanson

800 years ago, the first Magna Carta was reluctantly signed by the English King John at Runnymede. Walter Johanson, retired Mount Vernon Social Studies teacher, will role-play the part of Stephen Langton, the Pope-appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, who motivated English Barons to curb the King’s power.
Johanson will explain the Magna Carta’s far-reaching influence on the rights of the individual, and how it led to the wording of the U.S. Constitution.