The full text of the charter, preamble to security clause — sixty-three clauses in one reading.
Magna Carta is a single continuous document: a royal preamble identifying the king and his advisors, sixty-three numbered clauses, and a closing security clause. The modern English text presented here follows the clause structure of the 1215 original. Read it in full once — it takes about thirty minutes. Slow down at clauses 1, 12, 13, 17, 20, 39, 40, 41, and 61.
Preamble, sixty-three clauses, and the security clause — Runnymede, 15 June 1215.
The full text of the charter sealed at Runnymede on 15 June 1215: preamble, sixty-three clauses governing feudal tenure, taxation, justice, and the rights of free men, and the security clause empowering a baronial council to levy war on the king if he should violate its terms.