Analysis Of Article 39 Of The Magna Carta

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Article 39 of the Magna Carta states that “No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”The Magna Carta,which is also known as the Great Charter, is an early ancestral constitution from England that early American Founder’s considered its concepts in designing our own constitution. …show more content…
In order for the King to be held accountable in whatever he does the King must concede some powers and so in 1215 the magna Carta was introduced and signed by King John of England making the King accountable for wrongdoings by the law, and forbidding the capture and holding of a man without being first properly tried by peers and the law of the land . In chapter 17 of We the People it states that “ordinary lawsuits shall not follow the royal court around but shall be held in a fixed place.” This means that the adjudication or decision making in a legal case or proceeding as a judge rules on some dispute between parties cannot occur wherever the king wants but will take place in a public court near the location of the crime. King John knew all of the conditions of the Magna Carta but still signed it because people were getting tired of being overruled by the English