NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
EUROPEAN NATION STATES
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Question
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the system of vassalage should be abolished.
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the Catholic Church had no authority in England.
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there should be a system of common law throughout England.
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the power of the English monarch was not absolute.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be thought of as human rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -Magna Carta originated as an unsuccessful attempt to achieve peace between royalist and rebel factions in 1215, as part of the events leading to the outbreak of the First Barons’ War. England was ruled by King John, the third of the Angevin kings.