Question

Select the ideas that were introduced by the Magna Carta.

Trial by jury

Women's rights

Documentation of peoples' rights

Democratic thought

Sovereign power to the king

Answer 1

- Trial by jury — Yes (Magna Carta included due-process/judgment-by-peers provisions that helped originate this idea).
- Documentation of peoples' rights — Yes (it was a written charter recording certain rights and limits on the king).
- Democratic thought — Yes (it did not create democracy but introduced limits on royal power and principles that later influenced democratic constitutionalism).

Not introduced by the Magna Carta:
- Women's rights — No.
- Sovereign power to the king — No (it restricted, rather than increased, the king’s power).