We The People 2.6

What is based on custom and decisions of law courts?

• Statutory law
• Murphy's law

• Common law
• Civil law

What was a act passed by parliament in 1689 that limited the power of the monarch?

• English Bill of Rights

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence

What was a system of social, economic, and political organization used in Medieval times?

• Feudalism
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Socialism

What is the earliest example of a written statement limiting the government?

• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• Magna Carta
• Emancipation Proclamation

What is the legislative body of British government?

• Parliament
• House of Representatives
• Senate
• Congress

A statute that limited the English monarch's power to tax people without the consent of Parliament and guaranteed certain rights to English subjects

• Petition of Right

• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights
• Mayflower Compact

Basic legal claims established over time, that all subjects of the English monarch were understood to have. They included the right not to be kept in prison without a trial and the right to trial by jury.

• Common law rights
• Rights of Englishmen

• Religious freedoms
• Feudal obligations

Someone who owes allegiance to a government or ruler.

• citizen
• subject
• rebel
• enemy

The principle that both those who govern and those who are governed must obey the law and are subject to the same laws.

• Rule of law
• Law of attraction
• Law of averages
• Law of gravity