WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1689, Parliament passed the English Bill of Rights, which, like Magna Carta, established regulations limiting the monarch’s power and safeguarding the people’s individual rights. The Bill was a turning point in British political history since it limited the monarch’s authority while establishing Parliament’s rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Magna Carta limited the king’s absolute claim to power. It provided a certain level of religious freedom or independence from the crown, protected barons from illegal imprisonment, and limited the taxes that the crown could impose upon the barons, among other things.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Magna Carta was the first document to restrict an English ruler’s power. It limited the monarch’s rights to levy taxes w/o consulting nobles. Parliament is a two house legislature and/or governing body in England. No monarch could raise taxes w/o the consent of Parliament.

Detailed explanation-4: -Magna Carta The Monarch doesn’t have absolute power. The Law is above all men and applies to everyone equally. All free citizens can own and inherit property. Widows who own property don’t have to remarry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Magna Carta – Latin for ‘Great Charter’ – is one of the most celebrated documents in western history. It was the first written material to set limits on the power of an English monarch, and was intended to prevent King John from exploiting his people.

Detailed explanation-6: -“No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or ruined in any way, nor in any way proceeded against, except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land. “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.”