1. Theories and Origins of Government
Part 2
English Contributions

2. Warm-up from yesterday’s:
How do you, or someone you know, display “civic virtue”?
Should public schools today be concerned with providing “moral education”?

3. I. The Magna Carta
When: 1215
Who:
What:
Why:
Significance:

4. II Petition of Rights
1628
Who:
What:
Why:
Significance:

5. III. English Government – Parliament Arrives
Parliament was a council of nobility created to advise the monarch.
History of hostility between parliament and monarch.
Parliament = House of Lords + House of Commons
House of Lords- nobility
House of Commons - wealthy and people of standing in community-knights, merchants, craftsmen.

6. IV. The English Bill of Rights
Who:
What: Glorious Revolution
Why:
Significance:
Photos:
above is William and Mary
Below, Hampton Court, palace they added to Henry VIII’s.

7. John Locke, Rebel with a Cause

8. John Locke’s Natural Rights Philosophy – 5 parts
State of Nature
Natural Rights
Human Nature
Purpose of Government
Social Contract