Noun
Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMagna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign. Edward Coke
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. Thomas Henry Huxley
Let us spell out the Magna Charta of which we humbly catch sight. Let us say to the people of whom all peoples are made: "Wake up and understand, look and see; and having begun again the consciousness which was mown down by slavery, decide that everything must be begun again!" Henri Barbusse
Ah, Mein Kampf is a Magna Charta. David Lloyd George
At his home he hung a copy of the warrant for the execution of Charles I with the inscription "Major Charta" and wrote of "the least bad of all murders, that of a King". Source: Internet
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 1981: the Studio of the Street, Charta, 2007. Source: Internet