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To: henkster
Magna Carta to a large extent was written to settle medieval disputes between the nobility and the king. But parts of it were stated as general principles, and these part endure.

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.

To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

5 posted on 09/21/2015 11:40:35 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: omega4412
No free man

This applied to very few people, essentially the barony. Your quote seem incorrect - "equals" should be "peers". Villiens and merchants have a different treatment in the text, for example, because they did no have the rights of freemen. Peerage is an essential and assumed component of the text and one with which Americans certainly are no familiar.

7 posted on 09/21/2015 12:09:10 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: omega4412

“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.”

Well, 800 years later and we still haven’t got that in the USA...


8 posted on 09/21/2015 12:16:28 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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