What did the Magna Carta do? It gave King John more power to raise taxes.
It reduced the rights of landowners and aristocrats.
It protected the rights of the commoners.
It ensured that anyone accused had a trial before a jury of that person's peers.

THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D) It ensured that anyone accused had a trial before a jury of that person's peers

Explanation:

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion