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What is the Magna Carta? What impact did it have on the powers of the monarch?
 
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________ refers to a nineteenth-century social movement demanding political and social rights for workers that engaged in peaceful mass protest.
 
  A. Chartist movement
  B. Labour movement
  C. Anarchist movement
  D. Civil Rights movement
  E. Socialist movement



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Answer to Question 1

Magna Carta is the original constitutional document of the British government. Signed in 1215 between King John and the nobility, it set out limits on the monarch and established civil rights.
The Magna Carta limited the power of the king by granting rights such as habeas corpus, which protected ordinary citizens against unlawful imprisonment, and created a Great Council of nobles that the king did not control and that had some power over taxation.

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