SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
MAYFLOWER COMPACT DEFINITION SUMMARY HISTORY
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Foreign Investors
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Christians
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Freed People
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Peasants
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Detailed explanation-1: -This document guarantees Barons their ancient rights: No new taxes unless a common counsel agrees. All free men have the right to justice and a fair trial with a jury. The Monarch doesn’t have absolute power.
Detailed explanation-2: -The free men Although Magna Carta focused on the interests of the barons, a significant proportion of its clauses dealt with all free men, which included the barons, knights and the free peasantry. The distinction between the free and the unfree peasantry (’the villeins’) varied across the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -Magna Carta was not intended to be a great charter of rights for all people, but designed by the barons to ensure that their rights were protected against the king’s power.
Detailed explanation-4: -Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; “Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.