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Article: Magna Carta's `Road to Liberty' Includes a Day in Alexandria
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- August 27, 1987
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The scribes who 772 years ago wrote the Magna Carta for King John
of England were drafting a document that is the basis for individual
rights of Americans today. Tomorrow that document will be on exhibit
in Alexandria.
The traveling exhibit of the Magna Carta, on loan from the
Lincoln Cathedral in England, will be at the Lyceum at 201 S.
Washington St. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets are required
and can be picked up at no charge at the Lyceum beginning at 9 a.m.
The exhibit, titled "Roads to Liberty: Magna Carta to the
Constitution," was formally launched March 11 at a reception in the
White House Rose Garden with President Reagan. When the tour ends