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  ////Magna Carta////. 1215. National Archives. ////ABC-CLIO:World History////. Web. 5 Mar. 2010. . between King John of England powerful aristocrats that were dissatisfied by the king.Their dissatisfaction rose from his attempt to increase taxes and his argument with the pope over appointing bishops that ended in the excommunication of England. The rebel aristocrats forced King John to sign the Magna Carta which set the first major limits on Medieval kings.The Magna Carta answered a number of legal questions and included a clause that required the king to get approval from a council before increasing taxes. It also includes a clause that gave a group of barons the power to take direction against the monarch if he failed to follow the clauses of the Magna Carta. This clause made the barons the effective rulers and not the monarch. This power shift is why the Magna Carta is seen as a step away from monarchy and toward democracy. After King John's death, the Magna Carta was not carried out with the full legal force that it had once had, but it remained a symbol of the limitations on monarch's power. ||
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 * The Magna Carta (The Great Charter) was a treaty that arose from the conflict