Passage of the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) meant that people could no longer be
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The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, was established during the reign of the renewed monarchy of Charles II after the English Civil War. It strengthened the antique and powerful order which had been a characteristic of English Common Law since before Magna Carta. It is a guarantee against any arrest that is prohibited by law, but it does not significantly defend other rights, such as the entitlement to a fair trial.
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