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How did the Magna Carta inspire later documents?

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Reasserted peoples rights against any rulers that may be oppressive.
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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.

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