The Magna Carta promised the protection of Great Britain.
Magna Carta Libertatum -LRB- Medieval Latin for `` the Great Charter of the Liberties '' -RRB- , commonly called Magna Carta -LRB- also Magna Charta ; '' -LRB- the -RRB- Great Charter '' -RRB- , is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede , near Windsor , on 15 June 1215.
A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England -LRB- which had already comprised the present-day countries of England and Wales -RRB- and the Kingdom of Scotland by the 1707 Acts of Union.
More than a hundred years before , in 1603 , King James VI , King of Scots , had inherited the throne of England , but it was not until 1707 that the two countries ' parliaments agreed to form a political union.
