Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
A copy of the 1672 “General laws and liberties of the Massachusetts Colony,” reprinted in 1675.
Early American colonial laws incorporated “the guarantees set down in the famous Chapter 29 of Magna Carta: trial by jury, freedom from unlawful seizure of property, freedom from unlawful imprisonment, and a guarantee of the rule of law,” according to the Library of Congress.
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