The Magna Carta: Clauses 39 & 40
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/magna-carta
Widely regarded as the most important document in the history of democracy.
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https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 11
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.Article 13
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.Article 14
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
The Deep State refers to COG. Continuity of Government and the concept that, while presidents come and go, the real power lies in the bureaucratic state apparatus that remains no matter who is elected. The Military Industrial Complex is an excellent example of this, or think of how the dozens of Intelligence agencies such as the CIA or NSA directors. None of whom are elected to their positions but they have enormous power inside and outside the US. COG insures that certain interests of the state (are pursued without interruption from administration to administration.
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