1. EOC REVIEW SESSION 1 COVERS MODULE 1 OF YOUR STUDY GUIDE

2. IMPORTANT THINKERS

3. MONTESQUIEU…WHO ARE YOU?? LOOK AT THAT FACE! THE FACE OF MODERN GOVERNMENT. A MAN WHO KNEW THAT POWER CORRUPTS. WHAT HAPPENS IF ONE PERSON IS IN CHARGE OF EVERYTHING? CAN ONE PERSON DO EVERYTHING? NO!!! THIS FACE TO INVENTED SEPARATION OF POWERS!

4. SEPARATION OF POWER~ MONTESQUIEU

5. UN~LOCKE THE ANSWERS FOR ME JOHN LOCKE DON’T LET ME SKINNY NOSE FOOL YOU! I KNOWS ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE. I HELPED CREATE THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THAT SAYS GOVERNMENT IS CREATED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE PEOPLE ALL DESERVE LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY MY CONTRACT SAYS THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO LET THE GOVERNMENT RULE OR IT WILL NOT WORK. PEOPLE MUST GIVE UP SOME FREEDOM TO THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE COUNTRY TO WORK SURRENDER TO THE GREATER POWER…BUT MAKE SURE THEY REPRESENT!

6. SO…WHO IS THOMAS PAINE… WROTE THE PAMPHLET COMMON SENSE PUT ALL THE IDEAS OF FREEDOM INTO A HANDOUT WHERE ALL PEOPLE COULD UNDERSTAND HELPED START THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

7. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

8. MAGNA CARTA DOCUMENT MADE BY THE ENGLISH PEOPLE TO THE KING FIRST DOCUMENT TO LIMIT THE POWER OF THE KING ALLOWED PEOPLE BASIC RIGHTS OUTSIDE THE KINGS POWER.

9. MAYFLOWER COMPACT THIS WAS SIGNED BY THE BRITISH PEOPLE ON THE MAYFLOWER COMING TO AMERICA. IT STATED THAT THEY WERE LOYAL TO THE KING, AND IT SET UP BASIC RULES ON HOW TO SET UP THE COLONY. SAID THE MEN WOULD VOTE AND MAJORITY WOULD RULE ON BIG DECISIONS. THE SETTLERS WOULD REMAIN LOYAL TO THE KING AND FOLLOW THE COMPACT TO MAKE SURE THE COLONY HAD RULES AND THEY COULD SURVIVE.

10. COMMON SENSE WRITTEN BY THOMAS PAINE INSPIRED THE THIRTEEN COLONIES TO BREAK FREE FROM BRITAIN. SPARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION CALLED “COMMON SENSE” BECAUSE THOMAS PAINE WROTE THE ARTICLE IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS SO EVEN UNEDUCATED PEOPLE COULD UNDERSTAND WHY THEY SHOULD BREAK FREE FROM BRITAIN.

11. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN THAT WE ARE DECLARING INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN GIVES THE RIGHTS OF MAN (NATURAL RIGHTS THAT EVERY MAN IS BORN WITH) LISTED ALL THE COMPLAINTS OF THE KING (SUCH AS TAXES, SUSPENDING TRAIL BY JURY, SOLDIERS LIVING IN PEOPLE’S HOMES) STATED THAT THE COLONIES WOULD NOW RUN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THE KING REFUSED TO ADDRESS THEIR COMPLAINTS, AND SAID THEY WILL FIGHT TO PROTECT THE COLONIES AGAINST BRITISH RULE

12. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION FIRST “CONSTITUTION” OF THE FREE USA MADE WITH VERY LITTLE LAWS (WEAK GOVERNMENT) THE INDIVIDUAL STATES HAD MOST OF THE POWERS WEAKNESSES: GOVERNMENT COULD NOT CONTROL TRADE BETWEEN STATES, NO USA MILITARY, NO EXECUTIVE BRANCH, 13 DIFFERENT MONIES, ALL STATES HAD TO AGREE ON USA DECISIONS ONLY POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT WAS: BORROW MONEY OPERATE AN ARMY AND NAVY BAN SLAVERY IN THE WESTERN TERRITORY CREATE NEW STATES HAD TO LATER BE REVISED INTO THE US CONSTITUTION AND EXPLAIN THE POWERS IN MORE DETAIL

13. CONSTITUTION INCLUDES: PREAMBLE SEVEN ARTICLES (RULES) THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT (EXECUTIVE, JUDICIAL, LEGISLATIVE), STATES POWERS, AMENDMENT PROCESS, HOW TO RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION TWENTY SEVEN AMENDMENTS (FIRST TEN CALLED THE BILL OF RIGHTS)

14. CHECKS AND BALANCES/ SEPARATION OF POWERS EXECUTIVE: PRESIDENT AND HIS TRUSTED ADVISORS (CABINET) APPROVES LAWS CAN VETO LAWS AS A CHECK AND BALANCE LEGISLATIVE: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE, SOMETIMES TOGETHER CALLED “CONGRESS” MAKES THE LAWS CAN OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENTS VETO WITH A 2/3 VOTE AS A CHECKS AND BALANCES JUDICIAL: SUPREME COURT AND SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ENFORCES THE LAWS, AND DECIDED ON ANY DISPUTES OF THE LAW CAN RULE ANY LAW AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS A CHECKS AND BALANCE

15. FEDERALIST AND ANTIFEDERALIST FEDERALIST- SUPPORTED THE CONSTITUTION, WANTED A STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT WITH LOTS OF POWER TO THE US ANTIFEDERALIST- THOUGHT THE CONSTITUTION GAVE TOO MUCH POWER TO THE US. WANTED A BILL OR RIGHTS TO ENSURE THE PEOPLE WERE PROTECTED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT