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Agenda Tues 9/13 & Wed 9/14
• Rap #9: Welfare State
• HW Review: pg 45 Q #1,2,4,5; • pg 54 Q #1-5
• Rap #10: “Hangin’ Out”
• Blast from the Past
• Origins of America Timeline
• Declaration of Independence
• HW: Read CH 2.3 pg 59 Q #2,3;
• Read CH 2.4 pg 71 Q # 1-4
• “Bundles” chart
• EC #1 DUE: Thurs 9/15 & Fri 9/16
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Rap #9: Welfare State “The legitimate object of
government, is to do
for a community of
people, whatever they
need to have done, but
can not do, at all, or
can not, so well do, for
themselves—in their
separate and
individual capacities.”
--Abraham Lincoln Explain how the phrase from the
Preamble “promote the general
welfare” relates to this quote.
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RAP #10: Hangin’ Out
•Suppose you have worked on
writing the Declaration of
Independence.
•What are you thinking as you
sign this document? In other
words, how do you justify to
your family, friends, and to
yourself that the risk is worth
it?
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Blast from the Past
• History Lesson
• No more kings
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Origins of American
Government
Chapter 2
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Basic Concepts of
Government
• Ordered Government
• Government is organized
• Provides Structure
• Limited Government
• Government only has the power that the
people grant
• Unalienable rights
• Rule of Law (power not absolute)
• Representative
• Government serves the people!!!!!
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Important Documents
• Magna Carta (charter)
• 1215
• Protection against monarchy and
pointless laws
• Judicial protection: trial by jury, due
process, life, liberty and property
• English nobles questioned absolute
power
• Rule of Law established
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Important Documents
• Petition of Right
• 1628
• Passed by Parliament
• Limited government
• Freedom of speech
• Non-military rule
• English Bill of Rights
• 1689
• Established Parliament’s power over
monarchy
• Limited military
• FREE ELECTIONS
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Types of Colonies
• Royal
• Direct control of the king
• Governor named by king
• Proprietary
• King grants land to a person
• They settle and govern the land
• Charter
• Self governing
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Early Plans for Revolution
• Albany Plan-
• 1754 Benjamin Franklin
• Create a congress among 13 colonies
• Rejected by King AND the colonists
• Stamp Act Congress
• Reaction to Britain’s tax on all legal
documents, newspapers, etc
• Taxation without representation
• Organized opposition to monarchy
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1st
Continental Congress
• 1774
• Response to Intolerable Acts
• Debated plans for separating from
England in the wake of increased
British presence
• Created a Declaration of rights and
organized a boycott (peaceful
opposition)
• Except…militias clash @ Lex &
Concord (Shot heard ‘round the world)
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2nd
Continental Congress
• Armed conflict escalates
• 1775- Philadelphia
• First national government of US
• Signed Declaration of Independence
in 1776… what date?
• Created the Articles of Confederation
(early constitution)
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1st
& 2nd
Continental
Congress
• The 1st
& 2nd
Continental Congress
rested on no legal base.
• They were put together in haste &
meant to be temporary.
• The 1st
attempt to establish a lasting
gov’t was the Articles of
Confederation.
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“Bundles” Chart
Plan/Compromise Kind of states
that benefited
Provisions (Description)
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut
Compromise
(aka The Great
Compromise)
Three-fifths
Compromise
Commerce and
Slave Trade
Compromise