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What do you know?

Watch members of the public answer the question: What do you know about the influence of the Magna Carta through the ages?

We were in Hereford again, asking some questions.

Here’s what we asked:

  • What do you know about the US Declaration of Independence?

  • Can you tell me anything about Universal Suffrage*?

  • What do Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela have in common?

Do you know the answers to these questions? Can you add anything to any of the answers given in the video? Do you have any questions about any of the language used?

Share your ideas in the comments below.

*‘Suffrage’ means the right to vote in elections. Read a dictionary definition of ‘suffrage’.
In Britain, suffragettes were women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who campaigned to win the right for women to vote. Here’s the wikipedia entry for ‘suffragette’

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