Why is the Magna Carta important now that you know what it is? Now the Magna Carta's going to go through a whole bunch of different revisions. Most of the ugly language is going to be taken out of it, but the important clauses, the ones that are going to evolve into this habeas corpus concept, the idea that you get a trial by jury of your peers, those big ideas of liberty, that we have this liberty, are going to roll themselves into the Enlightenment. We see them with John Locke, we're going to see it in the English Bill of Rights, in the idea of Parliament, and the spreading of that to the idea of the Republic in the United States. We've already talked about that, but the Limitation Clause in Article I, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, and the Ninth Amendment can be all traced to that Magna Carta, so hip hip hooray for the Magna Carta. And remember, the Magna Carta's not a constitution, it's just something in English history that evolved into common law and was adopted into later legal matters. So now at least you know something about the Magna Carta, thank goodness for that.