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This Monday, a peace treaty came into being that would become a member of English law and the basis of constitutional democracies in the United States and around the world hundreds of years later.

Rebel barons made King John of England seal the Magna Carta — the Great Charter — on June 15, 1215, so as to limit the power of the monarch, who they viewed as cruel and greedy.

The document set out the principle that everybody was subject to the law, even the king, for the first time on written record. Some of its key principles influenced the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other legal systems.

On Monday, Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince Philip, Prince William and other officials will mark the anniversary in Runnymede in the county of Surrey, near London, where King John sealed the charter.

"Magna Carta was a milestone in world history, and its birthplace at Runnymede deserves a lasting legacy," said the Surrey County Council, one of the organizers of the ceremony. The four known surviving copies of the charter are kept at the cathedrals of the cities of Lincoln in northeast England and Salisbury in the south, and two are held in the British Library.

Due process can be traced to Chapter 39 of Magna Carta and is incorporated into the Fifth Amendment, which includes the provision that no person shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law."

“It's England's greatest export," he said. "It affects the lives of nearly 2 billion people in over 100 countries throughout the world. It's the foundation of liberty, it's the foundation of human rights, it's the foundation of democracy.

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