And the principal benefit of the charter was, that it contained a written description and acknowledgment, by the king himself, of what the constitutional law of the kingdom was, which his coronation oath bound him to observe.
Spooner highlights the importance of Magna Carta in formally defining the constitutional law that the king was obligated to uphold.
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