Whose rights were initially protected by the Magna Carta? Please use complete sentences when responding.

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The right of the church to be free from governmental interference, the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxes. Also, it established the right if widows who owned property to choose not to remarry, and establishes principles of due processes and equality before the law.

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They thought it would attract more colonists.