It would be that the Magna Carta "<span>required trial by a jury of one's peers" that is a false statement, since although it emphasized the importance of a trial by jury, it did not require peers. </span>
England was the country that governed the american colonies.
It was Britain, France, and Spain that primarily founded settlements in North America, although the Spanish motivation was slightly different than that of Britain and France in that it purely sought to extract gold and other riches from the area.
