Layman’s terms. Examples, if you can too, please!
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Way back, kings could throw people in jail or have their heads cut off for no reason, or on trumped up charges, without a trail, and often without even telling the victim why they were in jail. Magna Carta introduced ‘habeus corpus’ to stop this. It means ‘show the body’, which is meant to mean ‘produce the evidence’. This curtailed the random abuse of power, and began a system where everyone received equal treatment, and had the right to know what the charges against them were, and who their accusers were.
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