Bill Of Rights Analysis

Democracy, for as long as it has existed, has been a form of government designed to incorporate the needs and wants of the people into the decisions of the central power. Documents over the centuries have written about various interpretations of the meaning of democracy, and what government should do and what powers it should have, including the responsibility of granting equality to all its citizens and appealing to the common good. Published in 1215, Magna Carta outlined the undeniable rights that should be bestowed upon free men under a just court of law. Similarly, Bill of Rights by James Madison and published in 1689 reviewed freedom of speech and conditions necessary for equality. The documents that elaborate on justice and its importance
Under a fair and just government, no being should be fearful that their own freedom could be taken without lawful judgement. The quote from Magna Carta exemplifies this requirement, stating that: “No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way victimised, neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers to by the law of the land” (Magna Carta, 1215). To further expand on the ideas of freedom developed by Magna Carta, James Madison discussed the rights given to free citizens under the court of law, given by fair judicial systems, and that those rights are not to be infringed upon. Madison explains in the Bill of Rights: “That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament” (1689). The best interest of a democratic government is to appeal to the citizens that bring them to power, which leads to why justice is a core democratic value worth
This statement from the Magna Carta outlines the objectives of implementing systems of equality: “Wherefore we wish and firmly enjoin that the English church shall be free, and that the men in our kingdom shall have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights, and concessions well and peacefully...” (1215). In order to build a government willing to provide these ‘aforesaid liberties’, the Bill of Rights states, “That elections of members of parliament ought to be free” (1689), signifying that the process of selecting the members of government should be open to all who serve under that government. These assertions regarding freedom and rights relate to the core value of equality by expressing the needs for citizens to feel safe and protected by their government in order to feel emancipated. The importance of this issue lies in the responsibility of the government to establish a democracy through granting the public the freedom to choose elected officials, which leads to why the government would want to promote