The document was to bring all EU law - as opposed to narrow "Community law" - under the jurisdiction of the European Court (ECJ) for the first time, creating a de facto supreme court. The Charter of Fundamental Rights, described by one British minister as having no more legal authority than the "Sun or the Beano", would become legally-binding, and with it Article 52, allowing all rights to be suspended in the "general interest" of the union - the Magna Carta be damned.