Liberty of the subject · Atlas

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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

The liberty of the subject, the core value at stake in the arguments for bailing Heveningham and Hampden against imprisonment by special royal command without cause shown.

and the subjects of this kingdom may be restrained of their liberties perpetually, and by law there can be no remedy for the subject;

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I think that by the constant and settled laws of this kingdom, without which we have nothing, no man can be justly imprisoned by either of them, without a cause of the commitment expressed in the return.

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And a day also was then appointed, on which the House, being resolved into a committee, should take into consideration those things wherein the liberty of the subject had been invaded, against the Petition of Right.

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