This record brings together three short English documents that are among the chief sources of American liberties. Each answered a particular abuse of royal power, and together they show how the English Parliament, over sixty years of conflict and revolution, turned old claims from Magna Carta into specific legal protections.
The Parliament of England · CatalogThe Parliament of EnglandThe Parliament of England · CatalogThese three documents were enacted by the Parliament of England in the seventeenth century, during its long struggle with the Stuart kings.The Petition of Right (1628), the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) and the English Bill of Rights (1689)
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