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No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

—Magna Carta, 1215

What best identifies a similar principle as it appears in the United States government?

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the:

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Article. I. Section. 1. of the U.S. Constitution.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Based on the reading, the Constitution established a system of checks and balances by creating:

The seven articles of the U.S. Constitution establishes how many branches of the federal government:

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“The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions…”

Many scholars today believe that Jefferson derived his most famous ideas in the Declaration of Independence from the writings of the English philosopher John Locke who wrote his Second Treatise of Government in 1689 at the time of England's Glorious Revolution. Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain "inalienable" rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental rights, Locke said, are "life, liberty, and property." These rights are referred to as:

What amendment protects one’s basic rights of speech, press, assembly, petition, and press?:

The political slogan “no taxation without _____” is believed to originate during the 1700’s as a result of one of many common grievances of American colonists in the original 13 colonies leading to the American Revolution.

This early set of laws known for having served as a model for establishing justice are known as what?

One of the earliest and most complete written legal codes used to rule Babylonean society, this code listed 282 laws dealing with a variety of subjects. A few examples of these laws are listed below:

196. If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out.

197. If he breaks another man's bone, his bone shall be broken.

198. If he put out the eye of a freed man, or breaks the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one [silver] mina.

199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or breaks the bones of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.

200. If a man knocks out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay one-third of a [silver] mina.

202. If any one strike the body of a man higher in rank than e, he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public.

The Triangular Trade route best exemplifies:

Which was an immediate result of the European Age of Exploration?

The United States sells manufactured products to lesser developed nations and purchases raw materials from these nations. This fact illustrates:

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"...for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few... an Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he takes care of his own household...We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless but as a useless character..."

---Pericles, 431 BC

Which type of political system does this quotation suggest that people of ancient Athens valued?:

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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

In The Prince, Machiavelli was most concerned with:

The Native American population of Mexico in 1492 has been estimated at 25 million; the population in 1608 has been estimated at 1.7 million. This decrease in population was mainly a result of:

Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 6, 1857

declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional declared that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts

How did the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) increase sectional tension in the United States?:

Britain's victory over the Spanish Armada is a turning point in history because

Identify the location of the State of North Carolina on the map:

What civil rights leader is known for the following excerpts during a speech on August 28, 1963 in Washington, D.C.:

“I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire; let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the heights of the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania; let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and molehill in Mississippi — from every mountainside, let freedom ring. And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.’ ”

Nationalism is most likely to develop in an area that has:

Which solution would Baron de Montesquieu offer to avoid the enactment of tyrannical laws?: