Reading Guide 2.1 - Our English Heritage Name ______

Reading Guide 2.1 - Our English Heritage Name ______(Pages 32-37)

1. What European cultural movement influenced the political and legal traditions of the English settlers?

2. Under what form of government had England been ruled for centuries?

3. How did the Magna Carta limit the power of the king?

Use the excerpts of the Magna Carta on p.768 to answer questions 4-7 4. When was the Magna Carta signed?

5. What type of government did it begin to form in England?

6. How have the liberties in Article 1 of the Magna Carta influenced the freedom US citizens are guaranteed today?

7. Read Article 39. To what is “lawful judgment of his equals” referring?

8. What was the Glorious Revolution?

9. What did the Glorious Revolution demonstrate about lawmaking powers in England?

10.What three things did the English Bill of Rights do to restrict the monarch’s power?

11.What is a precedent?

12.On what is the system of common law based?

13.With what guarantees did John Locke argue all people were born?

14.In a social contract, people agree to give up ______in exchange for protection of ______15.Locke believed that if government tried to take away people’s ______, it was breaking this ______

16.Rousseau argued that ______alone had the right to determine how they should be ______.

17.What idea was developed by Montesquieu and for what reason?

18.What is a colony?

19.What was the first permanent English settlement and when was it established?

20.What did the charter from King James I give to the English settlement?

21.What was the first representative assembly created here called?

22.What is another term for a representative assembly?

23.What group of settlers colonized Plymouth Massachusetts in 1620?

24.What written plan of government did they write?

25.This document is an example of a social compact or contract. Which political philosopher most influenced this type of self government?

26.What type of tradition in New England was established by the Mayflower Compact?

27.What was the first written colonial constitution?

28.By 1733 describe the two-part government in each of the colonies.