Why didn king John want to sign the Magna Carta?
John did not wish to sign and obey the laws of the Magna Carta because they prevented him from: Doing many things he did to obtain easy money to fight pointless wars he always lost, from killing and abusing followers of the church and using Arbitrary Justice (to use the law to help your friends and send your enemies to jail, for example how described by Roger of Wendover in the passage from ‘The Flowers of history’ written in 1229 “The servants of a certain sheriff somewhere in Wales brought to the royal court a robber. He had robbed and murdered a priest. John said “He has killed an enemy of mine, let him go.
