The Magna Carta was created:

a. to ensure that states maintained power apart from the national government.
b. to outline colonists’ complaints against the British crown.
c. in England to guarantee that the king could not put himself above the law.
d. by British Parliament in protest of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.


ANS: C

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