That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws . . . without consent of Parliament is illegal . . . That levying money for or to the use of the Crown . . . without grant of Parliament . . . is illegal . . .

That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is against law.

-English Bill of Rights,
1689

1. It promotes the authority of the legislative branch of government.

2. It places a Protestant king and queen on the English throne.

3. It protects the civil liberties of the citizens of England.

4. It removes an absolute monarch from the seat of power.

Which four excerpts from the poem "a political reverie" by mercy otis warren imply that america was an oppressed and exploited nation? no despot here shall rule with awful sway nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey; no more the widow'd bleeding bosom mourns, nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons; for then each tyrant, by the hand of fate, and standing troops, the bane of every state, forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far as bright hesperus from the polar star; freedom and virtue shall united reign, and stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. on a broad base the commonwealth shall stand, when lawless power withdraws its impious hand; when crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, nor petty pretors plunder here for kings