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?

7 Principles of
Democracy

Popular Sovereignty
The people have the power
in their government.

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

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

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

Checks and Balances

Each branch can
check, or control,
the power of the
other branches.

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

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

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 dont 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 29 th.

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?

Seeds of Democracy

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

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

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?

Magna Carta (1215)

Trial by jury for free men
Consent from nobles to raise
taxes
Led to legislatures in England
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English Bill of Rights

(1689)
Consent from Parliament to raise
taxes
Right to trial by jury
Limited Government
Individual Rights

Friday! September 30 2016

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Pick up your spiral/folder, take out a pen/pencil and

your bellwork sheet.
Bellwork: What do you think?
What rights should people have if theyre accused of a
crime?

ALL GRADES DUE TODAY!!!!

I AM FINIALIZING GRADES AFTER SCHOOL!!!!!

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

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

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

Write and Answer the Question in your

Notes

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

Mayflower Compact (1620)

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

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

(1639)
First written constitution in colonies
People had right to elect govt leaders
Linked voting rights to property ownership NOT church
membership (church and state)
Republicanism
Popular Sovereignty
Limited Government

New England Town

Meetings

Meeting houses in center of

town

Male Puritan church members

Discussed issues, made
decisions
Limited direct-democracy

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

ALL of these documents and ideas led to

U.S. Constitution
The government we still use today!

Answer in Complete Sentences in your

notes.
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?

The Constitution
What

is it?

What

does it do?

Who

created it?

When?
Why?
Whats

a legislature?

Popular

Sovereignty

Federalism
Republicanism
Separation

of Powers

Checks

and Balances

Limited

Government

Individual

Rights