This is the 1225 reissue of Magna Carta, the famous clause at its heart:
"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled….nor will we proceed with force against him....except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
"No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled….nor will we proceed with force against him....except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land."
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Was a serf or a labourer or a wife or a peasant a "free man"?
Or was it just the toffs who owned everything?
http://access.historyhit.com/videos/magna-carta-dan-snow
but hey the br*tish sc decided trans women to be not women so depriving the right to privacy (&self determination) kinda runs counter to that.(not that I expect that to matter)
also I assume their definition of man is "rich noble" or smth