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1628 CE

Petition of Right

Law & constitutions · Parlamento, fiscalidad y procedimiento

In 1628 the House of Commons presented the Petition of Right against taxation without parliamentary consent, arbitrary imprisonment, billeting, and martial law. Charles I accepted it while disputing that it established new rights; the document was part of an English constitutional crisis, not a universal rights guarantee.

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