Which important document most likely influenced the early American idea
that citizens have freedoms the government cannot take away?
A. The English Bill of Rights
B. Common Sense
C. The Mayflower Compact
D. The Magna Carta

“For early Americans, Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence were verbal representations of what liberty was and what government should be—protecting people rather than oppressing them,” says John Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

(It was Magna Carta who changed it), Magna Carta was issued in June 1215 and was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law. It sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power, and placed limits of royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself.

Which important document most likely influenced the early American idea that citizens have freedoms the government cannot take away? A. The English Bill of Rights B. Common Sense C. The Mayflower Compact D. The Magna Carta

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Which important document most likely influenced the early American idea
that citizens have freedoms the government cannot take away?
A. The English Bill of Rights
B. Common Sense
C. The Mayflower Compact
D. The Magna Carta