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| a government that is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away. |
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| a government that serves the will of the people and where people have a voice in deciding what government should and should not do. |
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| a great charter that was forced upon king john of England by his borbons in 1215. This charter esablished that the power of the monarch was not absolute, guaranteed trial by jury, and due process of law to the nobility. |
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| Limited the knigs power in several ways and challenged the idea of devine right, declaring that the monarch.The docuement demanded that the knig no longer imprision or otherwise punish any person but by the lawful judgement of his peers, or by the law of the land. |
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| An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.Prohibited a standing army in peacetime with the consent of parliment and required that all parlimentary elections be free. |
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| a written grant of authority from the king. |
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| a legislative body composed of two chambers. |
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| organized by a proprietor--a person who the king had made a grant of land. |
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| a legislative body with a single chamber(one house). |
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| Desrcibe limited government |
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| a form of government that is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has certain rights that government cannot take away. |
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| Why did the barbons force the king to sign the magna carta? |
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| They forced him to sign the magna carta becuase they were seeking protection against heavy-handed and abrittray acts by the king. It also obtained fundemental rights that would limit the power of the king and protect the barbons. |
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| What was the most signifigant aspect that the magna carta had on the english? |
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| Established the principle that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and was slowly starting to become a represenative parliment. |
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| List all the things that the bill of rights enacted |
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| Prohibited a standing army in peace time without the consent of parliment, all parlimentrary elections be free, right to fair trail, freedom from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual pnishment, right to petiton the king, and the king has to get the consent of parliment to suspend or execute laws. |
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| Were subject to the direct control of the crown. The king named a govenor to serve as the colony chief executive. A council, also named by the king, served as advisory to the royal governor. |
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