The Magna Carta was important to the development of modern democracy
because it:
O
A. placed legal restrictions on rulers who had once held absolute
power.
O
B. served as the written constitution of the first direct democracy.
O
C. forced governments to follow the principles laid out by
Enlightenment thinkers
O
D. combined Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman principles for the
first time.

The Magna Carta commonly called Magna Carta is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton.

Magna Carta was reprinted in New Zealand in 1881 as one of the Imperial Acts in force there. Clause 29 of the document remains in force as part of New Zealand law. The document also continues to be honored in the United States as an antecedent of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.

First drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal Stephen Langton, to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.

The correct answer is option A.

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