Evolution Of Individual Rights Prior To The Constitutional Convention
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Our Constitution and our laws are founded upon English law. That system started with the Magna Charta in 1215. Regarded as the foundation of English Constitutional Liberty, it: regulated the administration of justice, secured personal liberties and rights, set the limits of taxation, and laid down ....
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.... of Rights" (An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setting the Succession of the Crown)" (1628) They declared, in principle, the parliament supremacy, the right to free elections, freedom of opinion, the right to bail, prohibition of the cruel penalties, the obligation of informing the convict without delay on the reasons for his arrest, the right of being judged by a tribunal with a jury etc.
The first recognition of the human rights in an official document appeared ove ....
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