Assignment task:
Topics:
1. How has the Magna Carta shaped your daily life on campus?
2. What is the Rule of Law and why is it important in our daily lives?
3. How has a jury trial has made an impact on you or someone you know?
4. Does a criminal justice system that revolves around plea-bargaining embrace our forefathers' vision of a right to a jury trial by a group of his or her peers?
5. The Magna Carta is credited with the first mention of "no taxation without representation." How does this notion apply to contemporary society?
Of the 60-plus clauses contained in Magna Carta, only a handful are relevant to the 18th-century American experience. Those include passages that guarantee the right to a trial by a jury, protection against excessive fines and punishments, safeguarding of individual liberty and property, and, perhaps most importantly, the forbidding of taxation without representation.
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.