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What limited the power of the English monarchy and established the precedent that the English government would be based on law?
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What limited the power of the English monarchy and established the precedent that the English government would be based on law?

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This was the Magna Carta - signed by the King John of England in 1215. This document says that the barons cannot be imprisoned without reason and fair trial and it introduced some limitations on the taxes the king could impose.
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