CIVICS/GEOGRAPHY Unit 1 Question 3 September 16

STINGER  Identify three things that a constitution IS.  Identify two ways that the United States Constitution limits government power.  How can a government have a constitution without being a constitutional government?

UNIT 1 QUESTION 3  What effect did colonial experiences have on the Founders’ views about rights and government?  In what ways were eighteenth-century American and British societies similar or dissimilar in terms of the rights of individual liberty, equality of opportunity, and property?  How did early state constitutions reflect colonial experiences as well as the ideas of classical republicanism and the natural rights philosophy?

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS  Web  Draw a circle in the middle of the page and write the words “Influences on the founders”  Draw three circles around the middle circle and label them  Philosophy  Classical republican  Natural rigths  History  Colonial Experiences  Fold paper in half lengthwise  Label left column causes  Label right column effects  Keep notes in this format, drawing arrows as you go  English influences Graphic Organizers will be provided to you

INFLUENCES ON THE FOUNDERS  Colonial Experiences  Salutary Neglect (leaving the colonies alone for the most part for the first 150 years or so)  Representative Democracy (Virginia House of Burgesses)  Direct Democracy (Mayflower Compact)  Freedom of religious belief and practice (Rhode Island)  Constitutional government (Fundamental Orders of Connecticut)  Costly French and Indian War Causes Crackdown on law and taxation  Dissolution of legislatures and replacement of elected governors with crown appointed governors (Protected in Article I of the Constitution and Article IV of the Constitution)  People held without charges (protected in article I)  Taxation without approval by the representatives of those paying taxes (protected in article I)  Trial by jury suspended (protected in Article III)  People charged with treason (clear definition in Article III)  Restriction of speech, press, assembly, petition (protected by first amendment in Constitution)  Taking of colonial weapons (protected in Amendment 2)  Housing of troops on colonial property (protected in article III)  Unreasonable and unlawful searches (protected in article IV)

INFLUENCES ON FOUNDERS (CONT.)  British history  Magna Carta  Rights of Englishmen  Habeas Corpus  Trial by jury  Representative democracy  Separation of powers  Branches  Classes  Philosophy  Classical republicanism  Small, uniform communities (states?)  Civic virtue (responsibilities of citizenship)  Moral education  Natural rights philosophy  Social contracts (written constitution)  Protection of individual rights  Legislative supremacy  Limited Government

CHART / EXIT TICKET / HOMEWORK  Chart- to do NOW  Fill in chart using We The People Book  Turn in at the end of class  Exit Ticket – Write on the back of your stinger  How were the founders of the American government influenced by  Classical republican philosophers?  Natural Rights philosophers?  English History ?  Colonial Experiences?  Turn in with stinger and chart  For Homework  Read Colonial Influences article and keep in your notes  Complete worksheet and turn in on September 18  Celebrate Constitution Day on September 17!!