GOVT 200 Final Exam (Van Allen) fully solved graded A+

GOVT 200 Final Exam (Van Allen) What is the nature of English Common Law? What was it informed by? How was it originally established? - correct answer - English commons law was an unwritten body of law that governed England's understanding of jurisdiction. - Magna Carter, cortisones precedents, Law of nature (general and special revelation) Why is it important to discuss English Common Law relative to American Constitutional history? - correct answer - The significance we were previously English citizens so we carried the rights across - The law of nature is universal When is 'law' really 'Law'? - correct answer Law is really law when it pre-exists. that's absolute law What were the essential liberties enunciated in the Petition of Right (1628)? - correct answer Written by parliament directed at king, he was using powers he had no right to - exercising prerogative, (arresting people and putting in jail with no trial) Said can't imprison people w/o trial Which engrossment of Magna Charta is on display at the National Archives and Records Administration? - correct answer Confirmatio Cartarum 1297 Be able to identify the significant events and individuals which occasioned or triggered these three English Charters of Liberty. - correct answer - Magna Cater: Signed by King John, presented by dukes and lords, signed to prevent civil war - Petition of Right : Signed under Charles I, addressed issues under reign of Edward III. complaining of a series of breaches of law. The petition sought recognition of four principles: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime. - English Bill of Rights: signed under William and Mary of Orange, addressed issues of James II after the Glorious Revolution. Established a say for the lords over who will be king etc.