 The Ordinances were never again reissued , and therefore hold no permanent position in the legal history of England in the way that Magna Carta , for instance , does . The criticism has been against the conservative focus of the barons ' role in national politics , ignoring the ascendancy of the commons . Yet the document , and the movement behind it , reflected new political developments in its emphasis on how assent was to be obtained by the barons in parliament . It was only a matter of time before it was generally acknowledged that the Commons were an integral part of that institution . 
