The charter also set limits on who can hold public office, denying anyone who is unqualified. “Note we will not make Judiciaries, Constables, Sheriffs, or Bailiffs, accepting of such as know the laws of the land, and are well disposed to the observe them”. Ultimately, free men could be judged guilty by a jury of other fellow citizens instead of nobles. “ Note no freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land”. The Magna Carta was a revolutionary document that gradually transformed England from a Feudal Monarchy to a Constitutional Monarchy that prevailed
The charter also set limits on who can hold public office, denying anyone who is unqualified. “Note we will not make Judiciaries, Constables, Sheriffs, or Bailiffs, accepting of such as know the laws of the land, and are well disposed to the observe them”. Ultimately, free men could be judged guilty by a jury of other fellow citizens instead of nobles. “ Note no freeman shall be seized, or imprisoned, or dispossessed, or outlawed, or in any way destroyed; nor will we condemn him, nor will we commit him to prison, excepting by the legal judgment of his peers, or by the laws of the land”. The Magna Carta was a revolutionary document that gradually transformed England from a Feudal Monarchy to a Constitutional Monarchy that prevailed