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LESSON 3: AUTHORITY TO RULE
Long before the British began colonizing other parts of the world, they began questioning the authority of their own King/ Queen to rule. The most intense questioning was prompted by an abusive and incompetent monarch, King John. This resulted in the Magna Carta, or the Great Charter of 1215. This limited the powers of the throne and established protections that many point to as an early bill of human rights. We will examine the Magna Carta and consider how it might be seen as a precursor of the Declaration of Independence.
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