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Help me with Civics, please?

Postby adaya » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:05 am

PLEASE, don't leave answers like "Do your own homework." I really need help with this. ):

What did King John do that led to an uprising among England's nobles?
A) He executed an innocent noble.
B) He oppressed his servants.
C) He demanded that the nobles pay extra taxes.
D) He started a war with France.
2.
What does the Magna Carta mean?
A) Law of the land
B) Great Charter
C) Rule by law
D) The supreme law
3.
The Magna Carta's original purpose was to give unlimited power to the king, and protect the nobles' feudal rights.
A) True
B) False
4.
The Magna Carta forms part of the British Constitution, and its ideas can be found in our own United States Constitution.
A) True
B) False
5.
Thomas Hobbes believed that the first people on Earth lived in anarchy. He believed this was the order and state of nature.
A) True
B) False
6.
The ideas that Hobbes expressed in Leviathan reflected his belief that people acted from generosity, and regarded the civil liberties or good of others.
A) True
B) False
7.
The social contract described by Hobbes was based on a trade-off of individual liberty in order to acquire group safety and social order.
A) True
B) False
8.
John Locke, another English philosopher, agreed with Hobbes.
A) True
B) False
9.
John Locke believed that people had given up only some of their individual rights. Those they kept included: (select all that apply)
A) Right to live
B) To enjoy liberty
C) Right to limit the number of days a person chose to work
D) To own property
10.
Habeas corpus is ____________
A) Latin for "you shall have the body."
B) Greek for "you shall have the body."
C) German for "you shall have the body."
D) French for "you shall have the body."
11.
British subjects clamored for a return to the rulership of the absolute monarch, William of Orange and Mary, his wife, after the English Civil War.
A) True
B) False
12.
The Toleration Act barred all religious freedoms to Dissenters.
A) True
B) False
13.
The English Bill of Rights asserted which of the following? (choose all that apply)
A) Parliament would choose who ruled the country.
B) The ruler would be subject to parliamentary laws.
C) The ruler could not proclaim or suspend any law.
D) The ruler could not impose taxes.
E) The ruler could not maintain an army in peacetime without Parliament's consent.
F) Parliament would meet at least once a year.
G) The ruler could not interfere with the election of Parliament's members.
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Help me with Civics, please?

Postby hampton83 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:06 am

people would leave responses saying "do your own homework!" if you asked one or two questions, not 13...

most of this stuff is pretty easy anyway
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Help me with Civics, please?

Postby delron » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:10 am

okay then: do your own googling - or use an encyclopedia

{ But why is this stuff not in your textbooks?? }

Heck, I found habeas corpus in my dictionary.
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