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Warm-Up and Agenda for SS
Warm-Up for 9/25/14
Take out your interactive notebooks and on page 15 make a new page for Vocabulary
Title should be “7-2.3,4,5 Vocabulary”
Agenda for 9/25/14
New Vocabulary
Begin Notes on 7-2.3,4,5
**Collect Test Corrections
7-2.3,4,5 Vocabulary
1. Social Contract
2. Natural Rights
3. Separation of Powers
4. Checks and Balances
5. Parliament
6. Royalist
7. New Model Army
8. Constitution
9. Positive Constitution
10. Negative Constitution
Social Contract
An agreement between citizens and their ruler
Natural rights
Rights belonging to all humans from birth- John Locke’s idea
Separation of Powers
Division of power among the branches of government- Montesquieu’s idea
Checks and Balances
Ability of the three branches to limit and control each other.
Parliament
Law-making group in England, part of a limited government
Royalist
Supporters of King Charles in the English Civil War
New Model Army
Oliver Cromwell’s army that went against the King in the English Civil War
Constitution
Plan of government
Positive constitution
A constitution that tells what the government can do
Negative Constitution
A constitution that tells what the government cannot do
The Enlightenment
Standard 7-2.2
1. Time of Thinkers
A. During the 1600s and 1700s, many Europeans turned to reason instead of faith to explain the universe.
B. They wanted to find a natural law that could be understood through science and logic.
C. This time period came to be known as the Age of Enlightenment .
2. John LockeA. Social Contract – men give up
some of their rights for the order government provides.
B. Government exists because people allow it to exist.
C. People have the right to overthrow poor government and replace it with another.
D. Men born with Natural Rights1. Life,
2. Liberty
3. Property
E. Influenced American Leaders
3. Baron de MontesquieuA. He outlined a government
with 3 branches.A. Executive – monarch
B. Legislative – parliament
C. Judicial - courts
B. He thought there should be checks and balances on power.
C. He favored a Limited government like England.
D. US Constitution modeled off of his ideas.
4. Jean-Jacques RousseauA. Rousseau agreed with Locke on
that good government was based on a social contract.
B. He thought society was corrupt and the role of the government was to protect the people.
C. Society was more important than the individual, majority over minority.
D. Government's job was to give the people what they wanted.
A. Diplomats such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson lived in France and were inspired to revolt.
B. The ideas were used to form the foundation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which provided the framework for American Democracy.
7. Constitution
A. Constitutions can be written or unwrittenA. Written – Ex. The US Constitution
B. Unwritten – Ex. Great Britain
B. Constitutions can be Positive or negative
A. Positive – Says what the government can do
B. Negative – Says what the government can’t do. (American Constitution)
Review
Locke Life Liberty PropertySocial ContractGov Exists because people let it
Montesquieu3 branches
US Government Model
England’s Civil War – 7-2.4
1. Magna Carta
A. In 1215 the English king signed the Magna Carta which established the idea of limited government.