The Magna Carta was a charter of rights in which King John of England agreed to sign on 15 June 1215. The document provided a new framework for the relationship between the King and his subjects, in which, for the first time, everybody, including the king, was subject to the law, it also stated the liberties of free men.
The limitation of the king's powers along with the establishment of individual rights had a great influence on the Origin of the U.S.'s Constitution.
