Magna Carta exercised a strong influence both on the United States Constitution and on the constitutions of the various states. ... Magna Carta was widely held to be the people's reassertion of rights against an oppressive ruler, a legacy that captured American distrust of concentrated political power.
The magna carta virtually overruled the king’s power by finally drawing a line and making known the peoples’ individual rights. The way this contributed was through
the sequential making of the English Bill of Rights.
