The Magna Carta, signed and sealed 800 years ago, is credited with being the first articulation of many essential rights we enjoy today. One such right is the right to travel, referenced in Paragraph 41, which states in relevant part:
All merchants shall have safe and secure exit from England, and entry to England, with the right to tarry there and to move about as well by land as by water, for buying and selling by the ancient and right customs, quit from all evil tolls, except (in time of war) such merchants as are of the land at war with us … .1
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