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

The 1628 statute restricting royal exactions without Parliamentary consent, arbitrary imprisonment, billeting, and martial law.

65), Charles consented to the Petition of Right (No.

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The Petition of Right is memorable as the first statutory restriction of the powers of the Crown since the accession of the Tudor dynasty.

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To levy direct taxation to meet extraordinary expenditure without recourse to Parliament was not only contrary to the Petition of Right, but was certain, if the system was allowed to establish itself, to enable the King to supply himself with all that he might need even in time of war without calling Parliament at all.

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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

Seventeenth-century constitutional document whose framers reinterpreted Magna Carta's guarantees against imprisonment and martial law.

The framers of the Petition of Right read the same words as a prohibition, not only of imprisonment “without any cause showed” but also of proceedings under martial law, thus interpreting the aims of King John’s opponents in the light of the misdeeds of King Charles.

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The Petition of Right, as already stated, treats Magna Carta as prohibiting the Crown from making arrests without a warrant showing the cause of detention;

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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

English legal document cited alongside Magna Carta as having limited the means of supreme sovereign power in England.

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

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