Question

Read the passage from the Magna Carta.

No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned . . . or in any way destroyed . . . except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . .
–The Magna Carta, 1215


What inference can be made about King John to explain why the writers of the Magna Carta included this passage?

He had been too weak to jail his enemies.
He had used the law of the land to jail his enemies.
He had been unfairly imprisoned by his enemies.
He had arbitrarily and unlawfully jailed his enemies.

Answer 1

its the last choice ;He had arbitrarily and unlawfully jailed his enemies. this was inspiration for trial by jury and innocent till proven guilty and all that.

Answer 2

The answer is D.

Through this passage from the Magna Carta, we can infer that King John had arbitrarily and unlawfully jailed his enemies. To prevent this from happening again, the writter included a passage which outlaws it and provides reasons and situations in which a prisioner could be trialed or executed.