TODAY: Current Events Lecture and vocab Activity: game name this person Magna Carta Worksheet Exit Objective: You will be able to name some of the documents that influenced the founding of the US Government

Section 1: Our Political Beginnings CHAPTER 2: ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

HOW DO WE START? The colonist brought with them a rich political tradition Three major ideas were brought What do you think these are???? Ordered government Limited government Representative government

LANDMARK ENGLISH DOCS: MAGNA CARTA King John: 1215 Limited power of government Monarchs power could be limited by citizens Fundamental rights Trial by jury Due process of law

LANDMARK ENGLISH DOCS: ENGLISH PETITION OF RIGHTS Early document supporting the idea that men have rights and establishing the concept of rule of law Included basic rights Guarantee of trial by jury Protection against marshal law Protection against quartering of troops Protection of private property

LANDMARK ENGLISH DOCUMENTS: ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS Limited power of the monarch No standing army in peacetime Free elections Right of petition Parliamentary checks on power

GAME: WHO AM I ?????????????????? In your groups I will give you clues and you will have to guess the name of the person from the clues. Write the name on your white board and hold it up Make sure no one else sees your answer

WHO IS THIS PERSON??????? John Locke George Washington George Washington 1 st President of the United States & President of the Constitutional Convention

WHO IS THIS PERSON????????? George Mason George Mason Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Wrote the Virginia declaration of rights

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????? Rousseau John Adams 2 nd President of the United States and a founding father

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????? Thomas Hobbes Samuel Adams Samuel Adams Believed that people were wicked and the government must be strong to control them

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????? George Washington George Washington Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Oldest member of the second continental congress

WHO IS THIS PERSON??????????? Samuel Adams Samuel Adams James Madison Leader of the Sons of Liberty

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????????? John Jay Wrote Two Treatises of Government Life, Liberty and Property John Locke

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????????? argued that sovereignty should be in the hands of the people John Adams Rousseau

WHO IS THIS PERSON?????????? Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson John Jay Helped to write the federalist papers President of the Continental Congress

WHO IS THIS PERSON???????????? Thomas Hobbes Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence 3 rd president of the United States

WHO IS THIS PERSON??????????? James Madison George Mason Known as the father of the constitution