1. Wednesday September 21st 2016
Pick up your spirals/folders, take out a pen/pencil, your bellwork sheet, and your questions/summaries from yesterday.
Bellwork due Friday 9/23.
Bellwork: What do you think?
What is the most important thing to have in a free country?

2. 7 Principles of Democracy

3. Popular Sovereignty
The people have the power in their government.

4. Republicanism
People exercise their power by voting for their political representatives.

5. Federalism
Power is divided between the federal government and the state governments.

6. Separation of Powers
Power is divided among 3 branches to keep the government limited.

7. Checks and Balances
Each branch can check, or control, the power of the other branches.

8. Limited Government
Everyone must obey the law, including all government officials.

9. Individual Rights
Each citizen has personal freedoms that are protected by the Bill of Rights.

10. Thursday September 22nd 2016
Get your folders/spirals from the front, take out a pen/pencil and your bellwork sheet.
Bellwork: What do you think?
If people don’t enforce rules, what do you think would happen?
Write “No Bellwork” for Friday and pass your bellwork forward. If you need an extra day, give em to me tomorrow.
6 Weeks Test next Thursday September 29th.

11. Monday September 26th 2016.
Pick up your folders/spirals from the front, take out a pen/pencil and a sheet of paper to use for your bellwork.
Bellwork: What do you think?
What would you do with total and absolute power over a nation?

12. Seeds of Democracy

13. Reasons for the Growth of Representative Government
Distance from England: 3,000 miles across Atlantic Ocean
Rights and Traditions of Englishmen: land-owning males were used to enjoying political freedoms, like jury trials and representative government

14. Reasons for the Growth of Representative Government
Salutary Neglect: British policies were rarely enforced in the colonies, due to the belief that the colonies might flourish without strict supervision.
Self-Governing Colonies: distance and salutary neglect resulted in most colonies setting up their own governing bodies of elected representatives

15. Answer in a complete sentence in your notes.
What factors led to the growth of self-government in the colonies?
What English rights and traditions did colonists want to bring with them to America?
Why did Britain adopt an attitude of “salutary neglect” toward the colonies?
How did salutary neglect impact colonial governments?

16. Magna Carta (1215) Trial by jury for free men
Consent from nobles to raise taxes
Led to legislatures in England
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17. English Bill of Rights (1689)
Consent from Parliament to raise taxes
Right to trial by jury
Limited Government
Individual Rights

18. Monday October 3rd 2016
Pick up your spiral/folder, take out a pen/pencil and your bellwork sheet.
We are taking notes after the bellwork.
Bellwork: What do you think? (Full Sentences!!!)
What rights should people have if they’re accused of a crime? Why/ or why not?

19. Age of Enlightenment (1700s)
Period of time where thinkers questioned monarch rule and advanced ideas of:
Liberty and equality
Separation of church and state
Reason over religion

20. Age of Enlightenment (1700s)
John Locke
Enlightenment philosopher who believed that government:
gets its right to rule from consent of those it governs (social contract)
has limited powers
may be modified by the people
should protect the unalienable rights of its people

21. Age of Enlightenment (1700s)
Charles de Montesquieu
French Enlightenment philosopher
Separation of Powers
William Blackstone
British lawyer and philosopher
Strong influence on British law
Wrote about “natural rights”
Limited role and rights of women in colonial times
“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.”

22. Write and Answer the Question in your Notes

23. Virginia House of Burgesses (1619)
First representative legislative assembly in the colonies
Representatives (burgesses) elected by land-owning males
Republicanism

24. Mayflower Compact (1620)
Colonists created self-government (social contract)
Formed a political body to make laws for the good of the colony
Popular Sovereignty

25. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
First written constitution in colonies
People had right to elect gov’t leaders
Linked voting rights to property ownership NOT church membership (church and state)
Republicanism
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government

26. New England Town Meetings
Meeting houses in center of town
Male Puritan church members
Discussed issues, made decisions
Limited direct-democracy

27. The Frame of Government (1681)
Written by William Penn, allowed for:
Freedom of speech and worship (1st amendment)
Right to a trial by jury
An elected legislature (republicanism)
Colonial Charters
Colonists guaranteed the same rights as Englishmen

28. U.S. Constitution The government we still use today!
ALL of these documents and ideas led to…
U.S. Constitution The government we still use today!

29. Exit Ticket: Turn in for grade on a sheet of paper.
What ideas influenced the governments that were created in the colonies?
What issues and events led to the Colonial Era?
What significant issues and events occurred during the Colonial Era?
How did New England Town Meeting promote democracy?

30. The Constitution What is it? What does it do? Who created it? When?
Why?
What’s a legislature?
Popular Sovereignty
Federalism
Republicanism
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
Limited Government
Individual Rights