In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification ...

Magna Carta, first written in 1215, is so important because it's the first official protection of the rights of the individual. Some sentences in this document are still part of English law today.

The tool also highlights the ways in which Magna Carta influenced the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, displayed in an adjoining rotunda. Here, Alice Kamps ...

The Great Charter of Liberties or Magna Carta agreed between King John and ... clauses from which grew the right of the freedom of the individual or habeas corpus. 'No free man shall be arrested ...

Section 59 was one of the main reasons why progressive migrant and seafarer rights groups tried to block the passage of the Magna Carta, since it requires seafarers who initially win in disputes ...