Do Now: Write in your notebook at least three sentences on this question: What does freedom mean in our society today?

Four Corners  A resolution will go up on the board.  Read the quote.  Decide whether you want to go to “Agree”, “Somewhat Agree”, “Disagree”, or “Somewhat disagree,” and find that place in the room.

All people have a God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. No government can rightfully deny citizens of those rights. If it does, then that government loses its right to exist, as governmental power flows from the consent of the governed John Locke 1689

 True liberty means a liberty to do everything that is right, and being restrained from doing anything that is wrong.  Minister Jonathan Boucher

 The Social Contract can be reduced to the following terms: Each of us puts his person and all his power in common under the supreme direction of the general will; and in a body we receive each member as an indivisible part of the whole.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 Freedom and economic dependence are opposite and irreconcilable.  Pennsylvania Jurist James Wilson, 1774

 Civil liberty is maintained and exercised in a way of subjection to authority  John Winthrop 1630