Lord Sumption, a Justice of the Supreme Court, suggests that the Magna Carta pales into insignificance compared with the French Declaration of the Rights of Man. He dismisses the Magna Carta as a “turgid” document which is far less significant in the development of modern rights than the French Revolution.

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