2. HISTORICAL ROOTS How we got here

3. I. ideas from the ancient world first written laws - Hammurabi's Code 1750 B.C. same time Ten Commandments based on God Justinian Code 476 A.D.

4. Greeks direct democracy 477BC Romans republic 200BC

5. ideas from Europe juries and sheriffs 1154(ordered g’t) 1215 Magna Carta King John limited gov’t) 1400 representative government 1500 Protestant Reformation 1611 James I

8. 1628 Petition of Rights 1689 English Bill of Rights

9. PHILOSOPHERS HOBBES 1651 BRITISH FIRST SOCIAL CONTRACT LOCKE 1689 BRITISH CAN CHANGE CONTRACT

10. MONTESQUIEU FRENCH SEPARATION OF POWERS ROUSSEAU SWISS CONSTANT REVOLUTION

11. ideas from the 13 colonies 1620 Mayflower Compact 1600’s Virginia House of Burgesses 1639 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Public Education 1647

13. 13 colonies continued FREEDOM OF THE PRESS 1735 FREEDOM OF RELIGION

14. ROAD TO REVOLUTION PROCLAMATION OF 1763 STAMP ACT CONGRESS 1765 BOSTON MASSACRE 1770

15. REVOLUTION COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE BOSTON TEA PARTY

16. REVOLUTION 1 ST CONTINETIAL CONGRESS SEPT. 1774 PAUL REVERE’S RIDER APRIL 1775 LEXINGTON/CONCORD

17. REVOLUTION CONTINUED SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MAY 1775 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE JULY 4, 1776

18. John Hancock Thomas Jefferson Ben Franklin John Adams

19. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION SIGNED 1778 RATIFIED 1781 UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE NATIONAL CONGRESS

20. NEW GOVERNMENT NO EXECUTIVE NO JUDICIARY 9 OF 13 13 OF 13 UNICMAERAL

21. EACH STATE ONE VOTE NO POWER TO COLLECT TAXES NO POWER TO REGULATE TRADE

22. NEW GOVERNMENT ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 1781 - 1787 NORTHWEST ORDINANCE MOUNT VERNON (2) ANNAPOLIS (5) CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION MAY 1787

23. GEORGE WASHINGTON JAMES MADISON ROGER SHERMAN

24. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION VIRGINIA PLAN NEW JERSEY PLAN CONNECTICUT COMPROMISE THREE-FIFTHS COMPROMISE TRADE COMPROMISE C- FOREIGN&INTERSTATE s- INTRASTATE SEPTEMBER 17, 1787

25. CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATE FEDERALIST PAPERS JOHN JAY, JAMES MADISON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON DECEMBER 15, 1791

26. Actual representation Virtual representation Legislative sovereignty Popular sovereignty Interstate intrastate

27. TEXAS March 2, 1836 1876

28. FORCE EVOLUTIONARY DIVINE RIGHT SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT