In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, or in Latin, Magna Carta. Centuries later, America’s Founding Fathers took great inspiration from this medieval pact as they forged the nation’s founding documents—including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For 18th-century political thinkers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Magna Carta was a potent symbol of liberty and the natural rights of man against an oppressive or unjust government. The Founding Fathers’ reverence for Magna Carta had less to do with the actual text of the document, which is mired in medieval law and outdated customs, than what it represented—an ancient pact safeguarding individual liberty.
“For early Americans, Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence were verbal representations of what liberty was and what government should be—protecting people rather than oppressing them,” says John Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Much in the same way that for the past 100 years the Statue of Liberty has been a visual representation of freedom, liberty, prosperity and welcoming.”
When the First Continental Congress met in 1774 to draft a Declaration of Rights and Grievances against King George III, they asserted that the rights of the English colonists to life, liberty and property were guaranteed by “the principles of the English constitution,” a.k.a. Magna Carta. On the title page of the 1774 Journal of The Proceedings of The Continental Congress is an image of 12 arms grasping a column on whose base is written “Magna Carta.
The primary issue with a one party system is the suppression of individual rights and no democratic rights.
In a one-party system, like the one in Communist China, the people have no voice in how the country is run. One political party makes all the decision without any opposition in the parliament.
From the perspective of human rights, this will lead to dictatorship and a curb on freedom of speech.
Answer:
The "injuries and usurpations" described in this quote are the colonists' <u><em>proof that the king violated the principles of limited government, social contract, and natural rights</em></u>.
Explanation:
The American Declaration of Independence was the first formally documented declaration of the colonists asserting their right to govern themselves. The document reveals the nation's desire and decision to make their own government rather than be a colony of Britain.
In the given quote from the Declaration, the colonists made a bold declaration that the king of Britain has a <em>"history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States."</em> The use of the phrase <em>"repeated injuries and usurpations" </em>refers to the English king's violations of the government, social contract, and natural rights.
Thus, the correct answer is the first option.
Citizens can replace a governmemt official before their term ends with a:
<u>Recall Election</u>
