Britain and US may as well rip up Magna Carta

WHEN I was a child I read about the Magna Carta and how it laid the foundations for British justice.

An agreement grudgingly extracted from an English king in 1215, it states that ‘no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land’.

In other words, a fair trial. The Mayflower pilgrims than brought the same principles to America in the 1600s.