The correct response is the judicial tribunal. In the excerpt, Prescott describes the role of the supreme judge in the principal cities, which indicates that this judicial system had significant authority and could operate independently of the monarch, thus providing a degree of limitation on the monarch's power.
Excerpt 1 from William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico, 1843 The legislative power, both in Mexico and Tezcuco, resided wholly with the monarch. This feature of despotism, however, was in some measure counteracted by the constitution of the judicial tribunals—of more importance, among a rude people, than the legislative, since it is easier to make good laws for such a community than to enforce them, and the best laws, badly administered, are but a mockery. Over each of the principal cities, with its dependent territories, was placed a supreme judge, appointed by the crown, with original and final jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases. There was no appeal from his sentence to any other tribunal, nor even to the king. He held his office during life; and any one who usurped his ensigns was punished with death. Question Use the excerpt from William H. Prescott’s History of the Conquest of Mexico to answer the question. Which of the following had some power to limit the authority of the monarch in pre-Columbian Mexican civilization? (1 point) Responses the judicial tribunal the judicial tribunal the city legislature the city legislature the people the people the despot
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