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Article: Rejection and Reissue.(King John attempts to reject the Magna Carta)
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- Calliope
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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In his bold plan to reject the charter he had just sworn to uphold, King John faced one great obstacle: his own oath. In the
Middle Ages, a man's oath was something sacred, a promise made to God and before God, a promise that even the most arrogant of kings could not ignore. So John appealed to the man Christians considered God's representative on earth, Pope Innocent III. Fortunately, the king had recently come to an understanding with Innocent and was granted enormous power in England in return for an end to the long-standing quarrel between the two. Thus, when John asked the Pope to release him from his oath,
Innocent did so. Together they claimed ...
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