Here is my Intro to my Magna Carta paper for British History: (not as exciting as the other two but whatever)

Heavy Taxation and Ignorance plagued the people of England and its Monarchy respectively through out the late 12th and early 13th centuries. With the death of King Richard I in 1199, John, his brother assumed the crown and plunged England into Turmoil. Unpopular to say the least, John was known as “John Lackland or John Softsword” and was constantly defending his crown from his own people while taxing them out of house and home. Finally in 1214, the Barons rebelled and brought before John a list of grievances, which later was signed into law as the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta, which was first issued in 1215, was reissued after John’s death in 1216 under Henry III. This document has become very important throughout history, it has had both short term and long term impacts of both positive and negative natures, from constitutions, to wars and revolutions, the Magna Carta is the foundation of modern government, laws and liberty.