Read the following excerpts: "TO ALL FREE MEN OF OUR KINGDOM we have also granted, for us and our heirs
for ever, all the liberties written out below, to have and to keep for them and their
heirs, of us and our heirs
(2) If any earl, baron, or other person that holds lands directly of the Crown, for
military service, shall die, and at his death his heir shall be of full age and owe a
"relief, the heir shall have his inheritance on payment of the ancient scale of relief!
(9) Neither we nor our officials will seize any land or rent in payment of a debt, so
long as the debtor has movable goods sufficient to discharge the debt
(45) We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that
know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well
- The Magna Carta
These excerpts best support which statement about the Magna Carta?
It included rights that no monarch could take away from the nobles.
It gave the power of consent to all English people who paid taxes.
It provided for the direct election of rulers
It abolished the hereditary English monarchy