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The Magna Carta has an iconic status both in Britain and the United States as a cornerstone of civil liberties. Even today, its most famous clause - that no man shall be imprisoned without judgment of his peers or by the law of the land - is cited in debates about new anti-terrorist laws or the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay. The fame of this document derives ultimately from the four surviving copies of the original charter of 1215, one of which survives in the archives of Lincoln Cathedral.
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