THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Senate
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Parliament
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House of Representatives
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Supreme Court
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Detailed explanation-1: -It established Parliament as the nation’s legislative body.
Detailed explanation-2: -The council of 25 barons that the Magna Carta formed to watch over the king eventually became the Parliament of England. Archbishop Stephen Langton helped to negotiate the agreement between the two sides.
Detailed explanation-3: -This larger group of noble advisors especially summoned was known as the Great Council (magnum concilium) and it formed the basis for the modern Upper House of Parliament-today the House of Lords.
Detailed explanation-4: -On June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede, King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta. Confronted by 40 rebellious barons, he consented to their demands in order to avert civil war.
Detailed explanation-5: -Others weakened feudalism by eventually shifting some power to the common people. Magna Carta established the idea of rights and liberties that even a monarch cannot violate. It also affirmed that monarchs should rule with the advice of the governed.