magna carta highlights & explanations
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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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.