Was The Magna Carta Justified?

Isaiya Reyes-Martinez Period 2

May 25, 2017 Global 1

This is an essay about the history of the Magna Carta and the impact it had on the founding of the United States. It will also show how the Magna Carta shaped the thinking of American colonists. This essay will also show why it was justified for the American colonists to claim independence. The Magna Carta also helps to show that the rule of law is a necessary part of democratic societies. The Magna Carta also helps us to explain the evolution of government. The magna carta also has something called Due

When the Magna Carta was created the king was not allowed to be above the law for the first time. Instead, he had to respect the rule of law and was not allowed to abuse his position as king.

The phrase “due process of law” first appeared as a substitute for Magna Carta’s “the law of the land”. Due process refers to how and why laws are enforced. It applies to all people and businesses. Due process of law is a constitutional guarantee that prevents governments from treating their people in an abusive way. Now courts must uphold these guarantees in order to protect people‘s personal liberty and interests.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all people born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves that were just freed and, it prohibited states from denying any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law”. On the two-hundredth anniversary of the American Constitution, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Member of the United States Supreme Court said, “ The Civil War and the Fourteenth Amendment provided “a new basis for justice and equality it ensures protection of life, liberty and property of all persons against deprivations without due

Most of them communicated their specific rights, including freedom of religion, freedom of the press, forbidding of excessive bail or fines, right to a jury trial, and protection from loss of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

The amendments of the Constitution proposed in 1791 were strongly influenced by the states particularly the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, which incorporated a number of the protections of the 1689 English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta.

Shown here is Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which details the powers that are delegated to the executive branch of the