Examples of Magna Carta in the following topics:
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Limited Government
- In Western civilization, the Magna Carta stands as the early exemplar of a document limiting the reach of the king's sovereignty.
- In Western civilization, the Magna Carta stands as the early exemplar of a document limiting the reach of the king's sovereignty.
- John of England signs Magna Carta.
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The Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, and Double Jeopardy
- Its guarantees stem from English common law, which traces back to the Magna Carta in 1215.
- For instance, grand juries and the phrase "due process" (also found in the 14th Amendment) both trace their origins to the Magna Carta.
- Magna Carta is one of the major documents in British history that set forth legal precedents that would later be interpreted as protecting the civil rights of English subjects
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The Constitution
- The due process clause of the Constitution was partially based on common law and on Magna Carta (1215, ), which had become a foundation of English liberty against arbitrary power wielded by a tyrant.
- In his Institutes of the Laws of England, Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta protections and rights to apply not just to nobles, but to all British subjects.
- The Magna Carta of 1215 was written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin using standard abbreviations of the period.
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The Constitutional Right to Petition the Government
- Historically, the right can be traced back to English documents such as Magna Carta, which, by its acceptance by the monarchy, implicitly affirmed the right, and the later Bill of Rights 1689, which explicitly declared the "right of the subjects to petition the king. "