magna carta highlights & explanations

Magna Carta Highlights & Explanations

Clauses 42, 44, 45, 52,

54, 55, 61 & 63

Clause #42

• Any citizen can come and go from England as long as they remain loyal to the government.

• Outlaws are exempted from this

• One can’t travel to a country that England is currently at war with

Clause #44

• People who live in one area of the country (Indiana, for example) won’t have to come before courts in a different area of the country (California, for example) unless they are involved in a case in that specific region

Clause #45

• The government won’t appoint men to be officers of the court unless they know the law and obey it

Clause #52

• If anyone has been wronged by they government in the past, and that wrong is still happening (seizure of property, ex.), the government will make things right again, within a reasonable time period.

Clause #54

• A woman can be counted on to testify against another in the death of her husband only

Clause #55

• All punishments that were imposed by the government unfairly and against the law will immediately be revoked

Clause #61

• The population will elect twenty-five men to see to it that these clauses are enforced.

• If the royalty violates any of these clauses, four of those twenty-five men need to show royalty that they have violated them.

• If the royalty has been shown that they violated one of these clauses, they need to “right the wrong” within forty days.

• If royalty doesn’t “right the wrong” within forty days, the issue needs to be referred to all twenty-five elected men.

• The twenty-five elected men may then forcibly correct the error.

• As long as the majority of the twenty-five elected men agree, their decision is binding.

Clause #63

• This clause simply reiterates the notion that the English church needs to remain free.

• It also states that these rights will be preserved forever and without evil intentions.