Magna Carta (Great Charter) was originally a peace agreement between King John and a number of rebel feudal lords (barons), signed and agreed at a meadow at Runnymede in Surrey in 1215.
Gradualism, from Latin gradus (âstepâ), is a hypothesis, a theory or a tenet assuming that change comes about gradually or that variation is gradual in nature.Similar concepts are: uniformitarianism, incrementalism and reformism.n the natural sciences, gradualism is the theory which holds that profound change is the cumulative product of slow but continuous processes, often contrasted with catastrophism.
Supplement. The American paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould first proposed the theory in 1972 to contrast phyletic gradualism, where evolution is described to happen smoothly and continuously. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page.