Ideas Behind the Constitution Learning Objectives: SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans...
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Ideas Behind the Constitution Learning Objectives: • SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from the Ancient Romans such as a republic. • SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from British traditions such as Rule of Law, Limited Government, and Individual Rights. • SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from John Locke’s writings such as Natural Rights. • SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from the Baron of Montequieu’s writings such as Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances. • SWBAT explain the ideas of government that developed as American traditions such as Federalism and Civilian Control of the Military. Chapter 7 section 3 pgs. 211- 214
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Ideas Behind the Constitution
Learning Objectives:• SWBAT explain the ideas of government
Americans got from the Ancient Romans such as a republic.
• SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from British traditions such as Rule of Law, Limited Government, and Individual Rights.
• SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from John Locke’s writings such as Natural Rights.
• SWBAT explain the ideas of government Americans got from the Baron of Montequieu’s writings such as Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances.
• SWBAT explain the ideas of government that developed as American traditions such as Federalism and Civilian Control of the Military.
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From the ideas of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, we took the idea of:
a republic / a republican form of government
which means, that we elect people to run the government for us. This is
also known as Representative Government.
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This is why at first we didn’t pay our Senators and Representatives.
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Americans had to beware of too strong
a leader like a dictator.
Julius Caesar
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King John
The Magna Carta limited the power of the king and said that all people must follow the same laws and rules. This is our Core Constitutional Principle of Rule of Law.
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We used this idea when we added a list of Individual Rights to the
Constitution.
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From this came our ideas of self-government which led to the Core
Constitutional Principle of Federalism.
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We made sure that we had Civilian Control of the Military.
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John Locke
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From John Locke’s ideas we made sure to include Natural Rights that all citizens have which are written into our Declaration of Independence.
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Baron de Montesquieu
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From the Baron of Montesquieu’s writings we used the ideas of Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances in our government.
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