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63. Wherefore we will and firmly decree that the English church shall be free, and that the subjects of our realm shall have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights and concessions, duly and in peace, freely and quietly, fully and entirely, for themselves and their heirs, from us and our heirs, in all matters and in all places, forever, as has been said. Moreover it has been sworn, on our part as well as on the part of the barons, that all these above mentioned provisions shall be observed with good faith and without evil intent. The witnesses being the above mentioned and many others. Given through our hand, in the plain called Runnimede, between Windsor and Stanes, on the fifteenth day of June, in the seventeenth year of our reign.

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*The translation of the names of the signers of the Magna Charta is taken from "Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History," Vol. II, page 323.

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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (A. D. 1778)
CALIFORNIA, act admitting State of, into Union

CONSTITUTION OF CALIFORNIA (1849)..

CONSTITUTION

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ACTS OF LEGISLATURE, how revised or amended.

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CHARTERS OF CITIES, how framed.

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