1. What did the Founders think about constitutional government?
WtheP Lesson 1
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2. What were some characteristics of colonial America?
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3. 1. Treaty of Paris
Led by Benjamin Franklin, with John Adams & John Jay
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4. Articles of peace accomplished:
Boundaries for new nation
Resolved prewar debt
Plan to remove UK troops
Restored confiscated property of Americans who were loyal to UK
Signed Sept. 3, 1783
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5. 2. Languages spoken in colonies
English
Dutch
French
German
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish
Welsh
Scottish Gaelic
Finnish
Irish
African languages
Native American languages
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6. 3. Native Americans Disease reduced population
Viewed as people to be conquered & assimilated
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8. 4. Indentured Servants ½ to 1/3 of immigrants
Colonial gov offered 50 acres per servant to landowners as incentive
Most 4-7 yr term
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9. How did the Founders learn about government?
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10. 1. Aristotle Student of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great
Wrote on gov, logic, rhetoric, ethics, poetry, bio
Place ideas & objects in
categories based on
similar properties
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11. 2. Cicero Orator, lawyer, politician, philosopher
Elected to all major offices in Rome
De Officiis- morality & moral duty
as applied to public life.
Influenced Western civ.
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12. Self-restraint & limits to action for sake of self interest
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13. 3. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan w/o gov, live in “state of nature”–
“state of war”
To avoid death, set state w/ strict authority & pwr
Book forbidden by Catholic Church-
challenged divine right of kings
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14. 4. John Locke Second Treatise of Government
Used state of nature to justify ltd gov & preservation of rights
Life, liberty, property
After abuse of natural rights, revolution
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15. Banned by Catholic Church for “liberal” views Separation of pwrs
5. Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws
Banned by Catholic Church for “liberal” views
Separation of pwrs
Checks & balances
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16. 6. William Blackstone Commentaries on the Laws of England
Commentaries on the Laws of England
English Common Law
Rights of persons, rights of things, private wrongs (torts), public wrongs (crimes)
Statutory & common law guarantee life, liberty, & property
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17. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 9
Argued history is not a good guide for creating government, because of many bad examples—Greece & Italy
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