What is the difference between the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights?I have to write an essay on this topic explaining the difference. By the way,...

I recently did research on both Magna Carta and Bill of
Rights, to prepare for teaching a lesson on Documents of Freedom, in a boy's camp.  Yet
I could not give the answer to this question without much additional research.  I
suggest that you get the two documents and compare them.  Find all things that are alike
between them.  This will leave all things that are
different.

I recommend to you, on the Magna Carta, A.E.
Dick Howard's Magna Carta: Text & Commentary, University of
Virginia Press (1998).  It is a very small book.

A book
that is very good on the Bill of Rights is Levy, Leonard W. 1999. Origins of
the Bill of Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press.  It is also a small
book, though not as small as Howard.  I think Levy may tell you which provisions of the
Bill of Rights have origins in the Magna Carta, so that you can tell that everything
else is different.