Magna Carta

1. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 8 authority · 1 neutral 9 citations · 22 passages

   ch. 2 · ch. 6 · ch. 7 · ch. 8 2 passages anchored here · ch. 14 5 passages anchored here · ch. 15 4 passages anchored here · ch. 16 2 passages anchored here · appendix.↩, taxation.↩

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   ch. 23 5 passages anchored here

   Magna Carta is repeatedly invoked as the authoritative charter confirming pre-existing jury rights.

   But we have additional evidence that, up to the time of Magna Carta, the laws of the king were not binding upon the judicial tribunals;

2. Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John William Sharp McKechnie 5 authority 5 citations · 33 passages

   ch. 11 5 passages anchored here · chapter thirteen. 2 passages anchored here · chapter fourteen. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 68 · chapter fifteen. 2 passages anchored here · chapter sixteen. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 74 2 passages anchored here · ch. 105

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   ch. 106 2 passages anchored here · iv.: an erroneous view. · ch. 141 · chapter thirty–seven. 2 passages anchored here · chapter thirty–eight. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 148 2 passages anchored here · ch. 149 · chapter fifty–five. 2 passages anchored here · chapter fifty–six. 3 passages anchored here

   Magna Carta (and its chapters 17, 42, 45, 50) is invoked throughout as the primary legal authority whose text and effect the whole chapter interprets.

   and Magna Carta, in this first of a series of clauses directed against sheriffs’ misdeeds, forbade them under any circumstances to try royal pleas.

3. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Cited by the colonies as English precedent for limiting the means of supreme sovereign power, supporting their argument against unrestricted parliamentary means.

   where magna charta, the petition of right, and many declaratory laws, had limited its means to a great extent:

4. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here

   Both bail arguments explicitly rely on Magna Carta as settled law guaranteeing that no free man may be imprisoned except by the law of the land.

   and therefore this return cannot stand with the laws of the realm or that of Magna Carta, nor with the statute of 28 Edw.

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