Menifee - English Documents

What document established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king.

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

• Hammurabi's Code of Laws

• Magna Carta

The "Great Charter" was also known as the

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Santa Maria

• English Bill of Rights

Which English King reluctantly signed the Magna Carta

• King James

• John Locke

• King Baron

• King John

What year was the Magna Carta signed in?

• 1512

• 1412

• 1215

• 1689

What are you witnessing taking place the painting above?

• King John signing the U.S. Constitution

• King John signing the Magna Carta

• Harley of Orange signing his Bill of Rights

• Jesus, Peter, and Mary at the Last Supper

This document would later inspire the American colonists to declare their independence from the British.

• The Connecticut Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• U.S. Constitution

• Magna Carta

This document set out certain basic civil rights, limits on the powers of the monarch/king, and set out the rights of Parliament. It stated/said that the only way that laws and taxes could be passed and imposed upon (put upon) the people of England, was through the passing of those items through Parliament.

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• 10 Commandments

• John's Rights

William and Mary of Orange were invited to take the crown, but they had to accept the ________________________ before they took the crown.

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Cagna Marta

• Glorious Revolution

The English Bill of Rights influenced how the U.S. would run their government when they had received their independence from the Britain after the Revolutionary War. Two U.S. documents that were influenced by the English Bill of Rights were the U.S. Constitution and the ______________.

• Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Glorious Revolution

• Potato Famine

Which document guaranteed the right to trial by jury and to petition the king?

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• British commandments

• Great Charter