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Explain how clauses 39 of the Magna influential to the American revolution

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The Founding Fathers credited the 39th clause as the origin of the idea that no government can unjustly deprive any individual of “life, liberty or property” and that no legal action can be taken against any person without the “lawful judgement of his equals,” what would later become the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers.

The last phrase of clause 39, “by the law of the land,” set the standard for what is now known as due process of law

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