Enlightenment and Revolution

1. Bell Ringer!!!! • Please take out your homework from last night … • You needed to finish the appropriate cartoons for Hobbes/Locke. • Get with your partner(s) from yesterday and complete your boxes.

2. The Enlightenment • In the bell ringer section of your foldable, answer the following: • What is an absolute monarchy? • What is the Enlightenment?

3. The Enlightenment • What • Age of applying reason to the human and natural worlds • Response to absolute monarchs • Fueled democratic revolutions and religious tolerance

4. Thomas Hobbes • English writer of Leviathan • Believed people were naturally evil • Need Monarchy for control. • Said government must protect people • “Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short!”.

5. John Locke • English writer of Two Treatises on Government • Says that people are the source of power • Government must protect our natural rights • “All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.

6. Voltaire • Freedom of speech • Religious toleration • Separation of church & state • “"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

7. Jean Jacques Rousseau • French writer of The Social Contract • Government is an agreement or contract between ruler & people • “No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”

8. Bell ringer!!! • Take out your foldable we began yesterday… • Please place everything else under your desk. • Who did we finish with?

9. Bell ringer #2 • The ideas of the Enlightenment are a response to what kind of government???????? • Who can explain the social contract?

10. Montesquieu • French writer of On the Spirit of Laws • Argues for a separation of powers • Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches • “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

11. Beccaria

12. Promoted Criminal Justice/Fairness • Argued that a person accused of a crime should receive a speedy trial, and that torture should never be used • The degree of punishment should be based on the seriousness of the crime • Believed capital punishment should be abolished Beccaria

13. Mary Wollstonecraft • English advocate for women’s rights • Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

14. Results • REVOLUTION!!!! • France, Haiti, & America • Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence • The US Constitution & Bill of Rights

15. Exit Ticket WHO SAID IT??!!??!! The best government is a monarchy. Religious toleration should triumph over religious fanaticism Government powers should be separated to create checks & balances. If the government does not protect your rights, it is the job of the people to overthrow said governement. A criminal’s degree of punishment should be based on the seriousness of the crime

16. Bell Ringer!!!! • Take out a sheet of notebook paper. • Write your name and mods in the far top right. • Title the sheet “Forms of Government Notes”

17. Bell Ringer!!! • Pick ONE natural right and… • explain why it can’t be fully enjoyed without freedom of speech • Write your answer on the mini note card

18. Round One • With your group select one thing/policy to change about PHS (5) • Be appropriate • Come up with how you are going to sell this to the rest of the student body. (7)

19. “Salon Walk” • Select one person from your group to sell your product for the first walk… • You will travel from group to group. • Take your board with you if you need it.

20. Salon walk coninuted • A new person will walk and sell your product each round • Round 2: skip 2 • Round 3: skip 3 • Round 4: skip 4 • Round 5: skip 5