1. BELLRINGER What would happen if there was no government?
DATE: AUGUST 30, 2016
FOCUS: HISTORICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL ORIGINS
OF GOVERNMENT
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
What would happen if there was no government?
How do governmental systems provide structure?
How do you think history has influenced our government system?
How do you think the oppressed justify their need for independence?

2. SLIDE 1 1) What was John Locke’s Golden Rule?
2) According to Locke, what rights is Government based on?
3) What is the purpose of government?
4) In your own words, define “Checks and Balances.”
5) List alternatives of government.

3. SLIDE 2 6) Why Classical Republicanism as a model?
7) In your own words, list the differences between Natural Rights and Classical Republicanism?
8) Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
9) Describe Magna Carta
10) What was the result of the Glorious Revolution?

4. Slide 3 11) In your own words, describe the Mayflower Compact.
12) What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
13) What are some examples of Checks and Balances in Connecticut?
14) How does the new order differ from England?
15) What two plans led to the Constitution?

5. Slide 4 16) Characteristics of the Virginia Plan
17) Characteristics of the New Jersey Plan