“Good” King John signing the Magna Carta against his will but at the insistence of the dignitaries representing the church, the Barons representing landed interests and the Knights just back from the Crusades representing the people.

This scene depicts the birth of English and American Law, the beginning of the rights of man, the doctrine that the government springs from the  people.

It is also intended that this panel should mark the importance of English common law as well as written law u1 the history of American law.