Chapter 10

Question 0

Habeas Corpus

Answer 0

-translated to have the body (latin)
habeas=have; corpus= body
-in the old days police could arrest anyone without a reason or arrest the wrong person
-could be forgotten in jail or die without even knowing what you have done wrong
-Habeas Corpus gave you the power to ask the judge what were you were being arrested for
-ask, “writ of habeas corpus.”
-judge would let you free if it is a bad reason for what you were being issued to

Question 1

Magna Carta

Answer 1

• translated to great charter from latin
• 1215
• one of the worlds greatest documents of freedom
• king John used to be able to take land and money from the people without reasoning
• After king John signed t he Magna Carta, no king after him was able to do whatever they wanted

Question 2

“This is the mother country, they are the children: they must obey and we prescribe”

Answer 2

• The mother country is England
• The Children are the colonists
• we is English people
• The American revolution was like a fight between parents and children. The children are grown up and can take care of them selves but still have to obey their parents and listen to them parents

Question 3

DO BILL OF RIGHTS AND SPEC. RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN FOR HW

Answer 3

DO NOT FORGET

Question 5

Rights of Englishmen

Answer 5

• more rights than the colonists
• English cannot see themselves equal to Americans
• Americans believed that the English rights were their rights

Question 9

Bill of rights

Answer 9

• gave more rights the colonists
• King William and Queen Mary signed it
• Was called the Glorious revolution because the colonists had won
• right to be proud