Also as a basis of limited government, the English prescribed the [[Magna Carta]] in the eleventh century. This proclaims, ''"No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or banished, or in any way destroyed ... except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."'' | Also as a basis of limited government, the English prescribed the [[Magna Carta]] in the eleventh century. This proclaims, ''"No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or banished, or in any way destroyed ... except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."'' |