The Great Charter (Magna Carta)
English barons and crown (1215)
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 2 citations
Cited by name as 'the Great Charter' and relied upon as the first and foremost authority establishing the due-process principle the Star Chamber is said to have violated.
Whereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament, it is enacted that no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold or liberties or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful judgment of his Peers or by the law of the land;
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The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 citation
Invoked as the guarantee of the Common Law form of government whose erosion is being traced.
The Great Charter—which was at once the embodiment and guarantee of the Common Law form of government, and which, within about two hundred years from the grant of it in 1215, was confirmed more than thirty times, was confirmed for the last time in 1415.
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