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Using the links answer the following //in your notebook// -

1. **The Magna Carta**: Watch [|this video about the Magna Carta] or read the following link to answer questions [] a. The document was an agreement between whom? b. What rights were guaranteed by the Magna Carta? c. What is Runnymede? d. What is the Thames? (check Google if you're really stuck!) e. Who is "John" that is referred to in the poem? f. Stanza 3 - How would you describe the circumstances under which the Magna Carta was signed? g. Stanza 4 - What rights were guaranteed by the Magna Carta? h. Stanza 4 - For whom were these rights secured?
 * Read [|this poem about Magna Carta] and answer these questions:

2. **The Mayflower Compact** [] a. What was the Mayflower Compact? b. How did this document influence the Constitution and the founding of the US?

3. [|Petition of Right] (note in your notes the who, what, when, why) 4. [|English Bill of Rights] (note in your notes the who, what, when, why)