Homework due July 30

 1. Review these Useful Links and answer the following questions:

• Magna Carta clip
• Magna Carta explained
• The Magna Carta

Magna Carta Assignment

1.       Why is the Magna Carta significant for Australia today?

2.       Which English King was confronted by his Barons to grant them rights?

3.       Where there any laws made before magna carta?

4.       What grievances did the Barons have?

5.       What concession did the king make which became the seeds of modern democracy?

6.       What important Act was passed in England in 1689?

7.       Name one right the Magna Carta provided?

8.       Did the rights in Magna Carta protect all the people in England?

9.       What has been described as the ‘International Magna Carta for all mankind’?