"No man's life shall be taken away, no man's honor or good name shall be stained, no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any ways punished... unless it be by virtue or equity of some express law of the country warranting the same, established by a General Court and sufficiently published, or, in case of the defect of a law in any particular case, by the Word of God." — Massachusetts Body of Liberties, drafted by Nathaniel Ward (1641)
The protection established here most closely anticipates which clause of the United States Bill of Rights?
- Acheck_circle
The Fifth Amendment's guarantee against deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process
- B
The Second Amendment's protection of a well-regulated militia
- C
The Third Amendment's bar on quartering soldiers
- D
The Seventh Amendment's preservation of jury trial in civil suits
Explanation
The Body's procedural guarantees against arbitrary punishment foreshadow the Fifth Amendment's due-process protection, illustrating continuity between colonial Puritan legal codes and federal constitutional rights.