796 years ago...

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No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or deprived of his freehold or of his liberties or free customs, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, nor shall we go upon him, nor shall we send upon him, except by a legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Magna Carta, issued this day in 1215. Hat-tip to Cato's Roger Pilon.

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