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    16 chapters The History of Individual Rights Introduction The US. Constitution Bill of Rights protects such liberties as freedom of speech freedom of religion, and the right to jury til The ka that itizens p i G ‘were entitled to these individ rights ‘over hundred of yeas. English history was the source ‘many ofthese rights. American citizens claimed these rights as their own and gave them new protections in the Bill of Rights. The English Experience Magna Carta Magna Carta (the Gre Charteris one ofthe ealest sources of individual rights In 1218, 2 group of barons rebelled! against King John of England, The barons were powerul noblemen who supp ing im exchange for large estates of lad, nthe Magna Carta, they demanded thatthe king recognize their rights in writing ‘The barons didnot care very much about therrightsof common people. But one pat ofthe Magna Carta provided that no "fre man” could be imprisoned or hse his rights except by the ment of his equals or by the law of the land” From thisgre the concep of due pe ans that psople mst ightsdeterrined fairy, according to Ls. In England, this body of etal lished law is known asthe common lw. English common law was defined by custom, ats of Parliament and the menarch, and jadical dec sions. twas used throughout the American cl ‘nies until the Revolt law's emphasis on due important principh new United States ‘The agreement between king John and his barons in Magna Carta lasted less than three months. After King John died in 1216, his son reissued Magna Carta to win the barons! support + ving Jot sigs the Magna Cana, whieh ecogied and poteted the ight fe Engin borne section) 47 1 A portal of si Edward Coke, the Engen layer wo argued that even the ngs abject 10 thew > this map, made in 1608, shows the anal of Willan of Orage nd hs et Tory England toca the English one Chaper + Te Blof iis ‘The Petition of Right In the seventeenth centiry, English Iswyer Sie Edward Coke used Magna Cara to argue that England’ king was not above the lw, King Charles 1 slained that he was answerable only to God But Coke was convinced that Magna ¢ had made the common lw Englands supreme authority. Even themonarch was subject toi In 1628, Coke and other members of Parliament presented the Petition ‘of Right to King Charles, The Petition of Right accuse the king of “Taxing people without Psriaments consent.

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