Magna Carta

The Magna Carta was a document written around 1215 in the time of King John.  This document consists of many laws that all citizens of england must obey, even the king. It laid out laws such as descriptions of how much money a heir of a dead bishop (100 pounds), dead lord (100 pounds), and a dead knight (100 shillings) would receive. It also explained what would happen to one who might harm anothers land, they will have the same taken away from them. One very important law that i thought was important, said "a free man shall not be fined for a small offense, except in proportion to the measure of the offense" this says that there are different punishments for different crimes. Such as a crime for killing would be different then a crime for adultery. This means that the society understood the value of punishment, and took big offenses very seriously. The reason for the magna carta to be written was to organize england at that time since it was only made england a few hundered years ago. The magna carta document did organize the country and brought a very organized set of laws into society.