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But, Winston, The barons who forced the Magna Carta on King John only did so to secure political power to themselves while he was trying to develop a civil service to do their work. And just as soon as he had been forced to sign it he tried to have it revoked. "Trial by one's peers" means just that, the Lords and Barons were to sit in judgment on one another, so as, of course, to secure the 'right' result.