"No freeman (person) shall be taken or imprisoned, ... or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed, unless by the lawful judgment
of his peers, or by the law of the land ..."
-Magna Carta, 1215
6. Which of the following principles does this quotation from the Magna Carta
explain?
A. guarantee of freedom of speech
B. guarantee of due process
C. prohibition against excessive fines and bail
D. protection of the right of the state to organize a militia

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

- a.) african slaves and indentured servant’s

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