You may well be right, I've not read my copy of the Magna Carta for a while, I must admit. On the other hand, you could be totally wrong, as the MC was nothing to do with the common man, but was worded to allow the barons and lordly landowners more freedomes to raise their own taxes.
Might you be thinking of the shot-down in flames and ignored 1689 Bill of Rights? The one that says that every Protestant man should have a gun?
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Variously quoted: "Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" is a constitutional principle of English law—an essential freedom of the ordinary citizen or subject. The converse principle—"everything which is not allowed is forbidden"—used to apply to public authorities, whose actions were limited to the powers explicitly granted to them by law.[1] The restrictions on local authorities were lifted by the Localism Act 2011 which granted a "general power of competence" to local authorities.
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