The Magna Carta, in establishing certain rights and protections of medieval barons against arbitrary rule by the English King, was a document important for establishing the doctrine of which of the following? Select one:
A. free trade
B. divine right of kings
C. limited government
D. universal suffrage

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

You're doing research for a public essay on alternative medicine. which of the following sources has the most reliable information? a. a post on a social networking site about the undesired side-effects of different alternative medicinesb. a recent government report comparing the results of alternative and contemporary medicine for a specified diseasec. an anonymous article on a medical website that claims the success of alternative medicined. a 2003 study conducted by a medical research center about the effects of alternative medicine

Mankiw attributes – chapter 1 and his 10 principles – differences in living standards within a countryover time and across countries at a moment in time to: a. the presence or absence of inflation and unemployment. b. the allocation of resources between private markets and the public sector. c. those that have dealt successfully with the efficiency v. equality tradeoff and those that haven’t. d. differences in productivity. e. ones that think at the margin and respond to incentives and those that don’t.