Bills of Rights Quiz

An ______ bill of rights cannot be amended or repealed by a country's legislature through regular procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution, and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments.

The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens.Bills of rights may be _______ or unentrenched.

An example is the ______, an English legal charter agreed between the King and his barons in 1215. In the early modern period, there was renewed interest in the ______.

The history of legal charters asserting certain rights for particular groups goes back to the ______ and earlier.

English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on ______.

An entrenched ______ of rights cannot be amended or repealed by a country's legislature through regular procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution, and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments.

The purpose is to protect those rights against infringement from public officials and private citizens.Bills of rights may be _______ or unentrenched.

An example is the ______, an English legal charter agreed between the King and his barons in 1215. In the early modern period, there was renewed interest in the ______.

The history of legal charters asserting certain rights for particular groups goes back to the ______ and earlier.

English common law judge Sir Edward Coke revived the idea of rights based on ______.