INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
DECLINE OF FEUDALISM
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It was the first document to place limits on the king’s power. The king had to ask parliament for permission to tax the citizens
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It outlawed feudalism and gave voting rights to all citizens
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It established Parliament as the nation’s legislative body.
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It determined England’s physical boundaries
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Detailed explanation-1: -Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Magna Carta 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-3: -Although King John did not follow the agreement, the ideas put forth in the Magna Carta became lasting principles of liberty to the English. Three of the clauses are still in force as English law including the freedom of the English Church, the “ancient liberties” of the City of London, and the right to due process.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Later generations of Englishmen would celebrate the Magna Carta as a symbol of freedom from oppression, as would the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, who in 1776 looked to the charter as a historical precedent for asserting their liberty from the English crown.