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British Official Floats Abandoning Ancient Legal Tradition Enshrined By Magna Carta
Justice Secretary David Lammy is pushing a sweeping overhaul of England’s and Wales’ criminal courts that would strip thousands of defendants of their right to be tried by a jury. The proposal would reserve jury trials…
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Magna Carta, sometimes spelled Magna Charta, is a royal charter of rights sealed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons who demanded that the King confirm the Charter of Liberties, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift and impartial justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood by their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.

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Magna Carta, sometimes spelled Magna Charta, is a royal charter of rights sealed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons who demanded that the King confirm the Charter of Liberties, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift and impartial justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood by their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War.

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“Neither we nor our officials will seize any land or rent in payment of a debt, so long as the debtor has movable goods sufficient to discharge the debt.”
— Clause 9 (tr. G. R. C. Davis, 1963)
“For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.”
— Clause 20 (tr. G. R. C. Davis, 1963)
“No sheriff, royal official, or other person shall take horses or carts for transport from any free man, without his consent.”
— Clause 30 (tr. G. R. C. Davis, 1963)
“In future no official shall place a man on trial upon his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it.”
— Clause 38 (tr. G. R. C. Davis, 1963)
“To none will we sell, to none deny or delay, right or justice.”
— Clause 40; Robert Henry, The History of Great Britain, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1781) appx, p. 622 · J. W. Jones, A Translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which occur in Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England', &c. (London, 1823) p. 249
“It is accordingly our wish and command that the English Church shall be free, and that men in our kingdom shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably in their fulness and entirety for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever.”
— Clause 63 (tr. G. R. C. Davis, 1963)

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