Ideas that Lead to Revolution What effect does the Enlightenment have on the development of democracy in America? Identify the freedom documents of the time period and state their purpose. How do other time periods and areas of the world affect the development of democracy in America?

Ancient Greece Democracy comes from the Greek word, demokratia, which means, "power by the people". Democracy emerged in Athens during the 500’s and 400’s BC. The purpose of democracy was to assure the middle class, that they had a voice in the government. The middle class people were t he backbone of the army and the city of Athens did not want to lose their army in case of war. Democracy also benefited the poorer of Athens by giving them representation, because they made up the navy oarsmen, and Athens could not afford to lose them in case of an attack. http://library.thinkquest.org/19317/htm/democracy.htm

Ancient Rome R – Rome = R – Republic Representation Wow – How easy is this?

England MAGNA CARTA King does not have absolute power! What does this translate to? This heritage is most clearly apparent in our Bill of Rights. The fifth amendment guarantees No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law Written 575 years earlier, Magna Carta declares No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned,...or in any other way destroyed...except by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice

England (continued) English Petition of Rights Guarantees rights to Englishmen http://www.unipv.it/webdsps/storiadoc/Doc%20GB/1628%20Petition%20of%20Rights%20(o).htm English Bill of Rights http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/england.htm Further guarantee of rights to counter power of the monarch

Enlightenment Locke Voltaire Montesquieu Rousseau What effect do Enlightenment thinkers have on American Democracy

Enlightenment 1. John Locke - His writings became the basis for the Declaration of Independence He wrote about the natural rights of Life Liberty and Property. He also wrote that government was created by consent of the governed in order to protect these natural rights. If the government did not protect these rights he said that people had the right to rebel and dissolve the government. This was the philosophical justification of the American Revolution.  2. Voltaire - His writings became the basis of the 1st Amendment and Freedom of Speech Voltaire once wrote: "I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend till death your right to say it." This famous quote was widely read and believed.  3. Baron de Montesqueau - His writings became the framework of the much the Constitution. He wrote about a Separation of powers and checks and balances that would divide government into three branches in order to prevent one branch of government from getting too powerful.  4. Machiavelli (The Prince) and Hobbes (Leviathan) both endorsed a strong government and in part formed the basis of federalism Where is Rousseau and his Social Contract? http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_6_Notes.htm

Mayflower Compact Consent of the Governed

New England town meeting What happened back in the day happens today? WOW again!

Virginia House of Burgesses Does this look familiar? http://www.archives.gov/research/american-revolution/pictures/images/revolutionary-war-001.jpg

Albany Plan of Union What was effect of this 1st cartoon?

Common Sense But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families. Wherefore, the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase PARENT OR MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds. Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new World hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

Common Sense Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet, and as England and America, with respect to each other, reverses the common order of nature, it is evident they belong to different systems: England to Europe, America to itself. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/sense4.htm

Declaration of Independence The break-up Story I. Realize how things should be! II. Identify the problems or cause of the break-up! III. Tell anyone who will listen!

Iroquois Confederacy Don’t they look like states?