Under Clause 1, the church was exempted from the Magna Carta. The nobles made clear that the church should be free from interference of the king and nobility. An interesting point was that the nobles explicitly included the phrase “for us and our heirs forever,” which means that they envisioned no point when government should be involved in the affairs of the church. This can be seen as a precursor to the philosophy regarding separation of church and state that emerged in the Enlightenment.
