The precedent for limiting the power of authority came in 1215 when the common people of England forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, submitting him to the "law of the land". Civil disobedience saved the English people from years of tyranny. When Rosa Parks peacefully refused to give up her seat on the bus, she sparked an entire movement. Along with the followers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks sympathizers peacefully boycotted the bus systems and brought about a positive change. Today, America is a country unsegregated by law, united as one. More recently, when unjustly ordered to forfeit their land, again, to the government of the United States as provided in the name of Eminent Domain, the native people of the Dakotas peacefully refused. Many supported the fight against the pipeline and the project was soon forced to