Use the primary-source passage below and your knowledge of social studies to answer the question. "...be it enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty...that whensoever any person or persons shall bring any habeas corpus directed to any
sheriff. .that the said officer... shall within three days...bring or cause to be brung the body of the party so committed.. before the lord
chancellor..."
Why did the British Parliament pass this law?
O to keep a king from holding people in jail for no reason
O to prevent Charles Il from being beheaded like his father
O to punish those who fought Charles I in the English Civil War
O to increase the king's power over Parliament