<p>Reading Guide 2.1 - Our English Heritage Name ______(Pages 32-37) </p><p>1. What European cultural movement influenced the political and legal traditions of the English settlers?</p><p>2. Under what form of government had England been ruled for centuries?</p><p>3. How did the Magna Carta limit the power of the king?</p><p>Use the excerpts of the Magna Carta on p.768 to answer questions 4-7 4. When was the Magna Carta signed?</p><p>5. What type of government did it begin to form in England?</p><p>6. How have the liberties in Article 1 of the Magna Carta influenced the freedom US citizens are guaranteed today?</p><p>7. Read Article 39. To what is “lawful judgment of his equals” referring?</p><p>8. What was the Glorious Revolution?</p><p>9. What did the Glorious Revolution demonstrate about lawmaking powers in England?</p><p>10.What three things did the English Bill of Rights do to restrict the monarch’s power?</p><p>11.What is a precedent?</p><p>12.On what is the system of common law based?</p><p>13.With what guarantees did John Locke argue all people were born?</p><p>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 ______</p><p>16.Rousseau argued that ______alone had the right to determine how they should be ______.</p><p>17.What idea was developed by Montesquieu and for what reason?</p><p>18.What is a colony?</p><p>19.What was the first permanent English settlement and when was it established?</p><p>20.What did the charter from King James I give to the English settlement?</p><p>21.What was the first representative assembly created here called?</p><p>22.What is another term for a representative assembly?</p><p>23.What group of settlers colonized Plymouth Massachusetts in 1620?</p><p>24.What written plan of government did they write?</p><p>25.This document is an example of a social compact or contract. Which political philosopher most influenced this type of self government?</p><p>26.What type of tradition in New England was established by the Mayflower Compact?</p><p>27.What was the first written colonial constitution?</p><p>28.By 1733 describe the two-part government in each of the colonies.</p>