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THE MAGNA CARTA
The Magna Carta is frequently considered as the corner-stone of freedom and the chief defense against arbitrary and unmerited rule in England. ...
However, the Magna Carta established for the first time a very noteworthy constitutional principle, that is to say that the power of the king could be restricted by a written endowment. ... Meanwhile the royal chancery produced an official royal grant, based on the agreements reached at Runnymede, which became recognized as The Magna Carta.
The Magna Carta becoming a basic document of the British Constitution, democracy and widespread protection of ancient liberties were not among the baron’s goals. The Charter was a feudal document and meant to protect the rights and property of the few dominant families that topped the severely structured feudal system. ... Magna Carta’s chief intention was restorative: to force King John to recognize the superiority of ancient liberties, to limit his aptitude to raise funds and to reassert the standard of “due process. ... ” to English law. ...
The Magna Carta led to the English and later the United States Constitutions. More precisely it gave protection to the rights of the nobles and common citizens alike to be free of capricious actions against their persons or property by their superior. It is the source of modern notions of free speech, free association, the right to petition the administration for remedy of grievances, the right of due process according to the law of the land, to the public and impartial trial at the hands of our peers, the right to voyage freely in the time of tranquility, and perhaps most important of all, the acknowledgment that even the sovereign is subject to the law of the land. The Constitution of the United States of America refers specifically to the Magna Charta in section nine, amendments one, five, six, and eight, and implication is made in both documents to "No taxation without representation".
Approximate Word count = 1574
Approximate Pages = 6.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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