“It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the ravages of time”

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It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the ravages of time. It would be fairer to say that, like much else that is very old, it is on occasion taken out of the closet, dusted off, and put on display to answer a need. Such needs are generally political. They are very often profound.

Jill Lepore, “The Rule of History”, The New Yorker (20 April 2015), 88.

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