English Heritage REVIEW (CIV)

People elect officials to vote on decisions for them.

• Representative Government

• Limited Government

• Direct Government

• Communism

The government is NOT all powerful.

• Representative Government

• Limited Government

• Direct Government

• Communism

In exchange for their loyalty, the English monarch gave noble families...

• ownership of land

• control of vast lands

• considerable power

• all the above

Nobles who rebelled against King John, forced the King to sign an agreement called the _______________. This document protected the nobles' control and allowed certain rights to all landowners and eventually all English People.

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• Common Law

• Social Contract

The Magna Carta...

• included equal treatment under the law

• included trial by one's peers

• said no person is above the law, not even the monarch.

• all the above

What was the lawmaking body, or legislature made of church officials, nobles, and eventually representatives of the common people called?

• Parliament

• Legislature

• Common Law

• Glorious Revolution

A time period of peaceful transfer of power from the monarch to the Parliament

• Glorious Revolution

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Precedent

How did the authority of English monarchs change after time?

• decreased

• increased

• stayed the same

The English Bill of Rights...

• further restricted the monarch's power

• guaranteed free elections to Parliament

• guaranteed the rights to a fair trial

• all the above

When judges were asked to decide a case, they would look for a _________, or a ruling in an earlier case that was similar

• precedent

• parliament

• limited power

• Magna Carta