The Magna Carta and the origins of judicial or legal process

Abstract

This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the judicial and the trial by jury in the United States. For this, it is analyzed the origin of both the legal proceedings and the trial by jury in the twelfth century, decades previous to the promulgation of the Magna Carta. Finally, it is concluded with an analysis about the implementation of the right to trial by jury and it is argued that this should not Magna Carta per se, but to the Fourth Lateran Council.