ead 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? Group of answer choices A. It provided for the direct election of rulers. B. It abolished the hereditary English monarchy. C. It gave the power of consent to all English people who paid taxes. D. It included rights that no monarch could take away from the nobles.