THE MYTH OF MAGNA CARTAby Edward Jenks "MAGNA CARTA is then the first corporate act of the nation roused to the sense of its unity." "The nation in general, the people of the towns and villages, the commons of later days . . . had now thrown themselves on the side of the barons." "The people . . . for the first time since the Conquest ranged themselves on the side of the barons against the king." These are the words, clear and unmistakeable, of a writer to whom every student of English history owes an incalculable debt, who combines...