alleryStart learning →The English Bill of Rights of 1689 preceded the Constitutional Convention by roughly:
AAbout a decade
BAbout a year
CFive centuries
DAbout a century
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. About a century
1. Set the English and American dates side by side.
2. Parliament passed the English Bill of Rights in 1689.
3. Fifty-five delegates arrived in Philadelphia in May 1787.
4. The gap between 1689 and 1787 is 98 years.
5. So the English Bill of Rights came roughly a century earlier.
_Source: OpenStax American Government 4e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 'The Constitution and Its Origins'_
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