American Government: Day 13

The beginning of our democracy is important because it is inextricably connected to how America is today, the freedoms and protections we all enjoy, and the structure of our government. Today we will talk about the origins of our democracy in order to get a better feel for the setting of the Constitutional conventions.

Take out some sheets of paper and your books.

Questions for notes:

1.) What is the Magna Carta? Why was it important?

2.) What ideas from the Petition of Right did the US adopt in the Constitution?

3.) Why was the English Bill of Rights important?

4.) What is representative government?

5.) What new ideas did Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau write about?

6.) Who could vote in the original 13 colonies before the revolution?

7.) What was the Mayflower Compact? Why were the Great Fundamentals important?

8.) What did the Fundamental Orders of connecticut do for the people of that colony?

9.) What is separation of powers and how were powers separated during the colonial period?

-Explain the Journals

Journal Assignment One:

The idea of limited government, first established by the Magna Carta, is an important principle of American Government. Why must government be limited? Can you think of ways our government violates its limitations? Explain...