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As Professor Justin Champion, President of the Historical Association, writes: “ The Constitutional Conventions provide an important opportunity for young minds to not only engage with the important traditions embodied in Magna Carta and its legacy, but also to interact with each other and distinguished experts from the world of law and ideas, in refining their own attitudes to the importance of liberty and freedom in the modern world. It is a moment of important dialogue between the past, the present and the future. ” 39