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Identifying Consider the English political and legal heritage, including English common law and constitutionalism, republicanism, the Magna Carta, and the English Bill of Rights, and identify at least three reasons it was important to the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States.​

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Both the state declarations of rights and the United States Bill of Rights incorporated several guarantees that were understood at the time of their ratification to descend from rights protected by Magna Carta. Among these are freedom from unlawful searches and seizures, a right to a speedy trial, a right to a jury trial in both a criminal and a civil case, and protection from loss of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

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