California World History Standard 10.2

Many of the principles of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the American Declaration of Independence, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the U.S. Bill of Rights helped shaped other countries views.
The Magna Carta greatly influenced future governments. The Magna Carta contained 63 important clauses. Two of them established rights for individuals. Clause 12 proclaimed that the king could not demand taxes but rather had to ask for some type of formal and common agreement Clause 39 declared that a person had a person had the right to a jury trial and to the protection of the law. This right became known as due process of law. Another clause was that the king could not levy taxes without the Parliament's consent. …