Question

Use the excerpts and your knowledge of social studies to answer the question.

“39. No free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or . . . in any way victimized, neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
—Magna Carta
“That excessive bail ought not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment. inflicted;
“That jurors ought to be duly impanelled [sworn in] . . . and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders.”
—English Bill of Rights


How did the Magna Carta, the English Parliament, and the English Bill of Rights impact colonial government?


They led the English colonists to demand representative government.


They supported the colonists’ demands for self-rule.


They encouraged the English colonists to give most people the right to vote.


They inspired the English colonists to create the Constitution.

Answer 1

I believe it is either B or A but heres what I found

The Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights affected the colonial government by:

Magna Carta- influenced many other documents for rights; limited powers of king and over time the rights were granted to English people, not just noblemen and freemen

English Bill of Rights- the government was to be based on the laws of Parliament, not the desires of the king; later help create salutary neglect-a hands-off policy that lead the colonists to act on their own

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