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Describe the significance

of the Magna Carta,
English Bill of Rights,
and Enlightenment ideals
in regards to America's
development and
founding documents..

User Don Li
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The 13th-century pact inspired the U.S. Founding Fathers as they wrote the documents that would shape the nation. ... For 18th-century political thinkers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Magna Carta was a potent symbol of liberty and the natural rights of man against an oppressive or unjust government.

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