“ Historically, the constitutional significance of Magna Carta has depended much less on what the charter said, than on what it was thought to have said, ” acknowledged Lord Bingham, who was lord chief justice of England and Wales from 1996 to 2000.
तथापि, सनदेशी संबंधित असलेल्या स्वातंत्र्याच्या कल्पना सर्व इंग्रजी भाषिकांमध्ये पसरल्या.