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| 22824 | Magna Carta forbids prison without trial, and insists on neutral and correct process |
| Full Idea: The Magna Carta forbids the King to imprison indefinitely without trial, and also binds the King to follow due process in his courts and not allow the justice provided to be for sale. | |||
| From: report of - (Magna Carta [1215]) by John Charvet - Liberalism: the basics 02 | |||
| A reaction: Very exasperating for a medieval monarch. In current times British law is exceedingly slow (so long imprisonment before trial), and the necessary effective advocates cost vastly too much for all but a tiny minority. So it's going badly. |