Which of these documents listed specific rights that the monarch would have to protect and respect?
The English Bill of Rights was signed in 1689 and it is an Act of the British Parliament that establishes several rules that the kings would have to respect. The Act settled that the monarch depended on the Parliament and avoided an arbitrary government.
Which of the following is not an idea from Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense?
- The British monarch should be respected as a matter of common sense.
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is a pamphlet in which Paine defended a series of arguments on why the American Colonies should seek independence from Britain. He used a simple language and used the language of the Bible so he could spread the idea that the American Colonies had to stand up and rebel against the abuses of the British Crown and seek independence.