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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Petition of Right
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(1628) Declaration by both Houses of Parliament, asserting among other things that only parliament could authorize taxation and that only the due process of law could imprison anyone, two limits on the royal power which Charles I reluctantly accepted. It has been described as the greatest single constitutional advance in the four centuries following *Magna Carta.
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