Anniversary of 'Magna Carta'
It was 800 years ago, on June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede, that King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta.
Albert Mohler speaks to the history and significance of the Magna Carta, and how the document serves as an antecedent to our Constitution.
Those of us who are now in the United States of America should understand that our Constitution, our written Constitution, harkens back 800 years to the signing of the Magna Carta. But unlike the Magna Carta, our Constitution has now lasted so long as to be the longest serving written Constitution in human history. It’s a remarkable document, but the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, as humbling as that historical moment is, reminds us that as Benjamin Franklin famously said, "we have a constitutional Republic if we can keep it."
It is up to us to keep it. And when we look at religious liberty and when we look at every other liberty, respected and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, those liberties are secure only so far and only for so long as the American people make certain that they are secured. And when it comes to the U.S. Constitution, we need to be reminded that the framers of the Constitution do not believe they were inventing new rights, they were merely respecting rights that had been given to every American citizen by God.
If we can keep it....... Indeed.
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