The English Bill of Rights of 1689:
A) was unwritten,like the English constitution on which it was based.
B) was King William's finest writing on the importance of liberty.
C) divided power in England between the king and Parliament.
D) was copied word for word into the U.S.Constitution a century later.
E) listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.

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The English Bill of Rights of 1689 listed parliamentary powers over individual rights such as trial by jury. It did not divide power between the king and Parliament as the power had already been divided before the Bill was passed. It was also not copied word for word into the US Constitution, although it did influence the Bill of Rights added to the US Constitution in 1791.