The correct answer is C) It gave Englishmen political rights. The Magna Carta is a representation of when the English people received their rights and had their rights and ideas protected. It is still held today as an important document respected in the legal profession in both the United States and the United Kingdom and is studied in universities across Great Britain. It influenced the American Constitution and also inspired the colonists to fight for independence.
States because the American people wanted to prevent the central government from becoming tyrannical. But the central government was too weak and could not rely on the states for support.
The philosophy drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion and was used to justify the forced removal of Native Americans and other groups from their homes. The rapid expansion of the United States intensified the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the outbreak of the Civil War.
