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Read the passage from the Magna Carta.

No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned . . . or in any way destroyed . . . except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. . .
–The Magna Carta, 1215


What inference can be made about King John to explain why the writers of the Magna Carta included this passage?

He had been too weak to jail his enemies.
He had used the law of the land to jail his enemies.
He had been unfairly imprisoned by his enemies.
He had arbitrarily and unlawfully jailed his enemies.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
He had arbitrarily and unlawfully jailed his enemies.

The clause demands legal judgment and due process, implying the king had been imprisoning people without lawful trials.