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Magna Carta   /mˈægnə kˈɑrtə/   Listen
noun
Magna Charta, Magna Carta  n.  
1.
The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.
2.
Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.





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... several cases in which Negroes sued for their freedom.[1] Their general argument was that the royal charter declared that all persons residing in the province were to be as free as the king's subjects in Great Britain, that by Magna Carta no subject could be deprived of liberty except by the judgment of his peers, and that any laws that may have been passed in the province to mitigate or regulate the evil of slavery did not authorize it. Sometimes the decisions were favorable, but at the ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley


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