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Create a HOUSE in your notebook with a large foundation. It should take up the whole page

Create a HOUSE in your notebook with a large foundation. It should take up the whole page. CONSTITUTION. THREE BRANCES. UNWRITTEN. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. COLONIAL SELF RULE. GREECE & ROME. ENLIGHTENMENT. ENGLISH INFLUENCE. Ancient Greece and Rome.

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Create a HOUSE in your notebook with a large foundation. It should take up the whole page

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  1. Create a HOUSE in your notebook with a large foundation.It should take up the whole page CONSTITUTION THREE BRANCES UNWRITTEN ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE COLONIAL SELF RULE GREECE & ROME ENLIGHTENMENT ENGLISH INFLUENCE

  2. Ancient Greece and Rome • Direct Democracy • Republicanism – representatives to vote for citizens

  3. Enlightenment • LOCKE – NATURAL RIGHTS, consent of the governed needed for gov’t • MONTESQUIEU– SEPARATION OF POWERS, CHECKS AND BALANCES • VOLTAIRE – freedom of SPEECH and RELIGION • Rousseau-Social Contract

  4. English Influences • Magna Carta • Limited power of king • English Bill of Rights • Trial by jury • NO Taxation without Representation

  5. Colonial Self Government • Virginia House of Burgesses, • MAYFLOWER COMPACT, First Representative • BICAMERAL (2 house) legislature like England’s Parliament

  6. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE • NATURAL RIGHTS as "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".  • “Consent of the Governed” Leaders are given the right to rule from the people.

  7. Articles of Confederation • Land Ordinance of 1785 • Surveyed the land • North West Ordinance of 1787 • how new territory will enter

  8. UNWRITTEN Constitution • Cabinet • Judicial Review • Committee System • Political Parties • Lobbying

  9. THREE BRANCHES • LEGISLATIVE- MAKES LAWS • EXECUTIVE-ENFORCES LAWS • JUDICIAL-JUDGES/ INTERPRETS LAWS

  10. U.S. Constitution • Finally, SEPARATION OF POWERS is integrated into US government along the THREE BRANCH SYSTEM and protected by the system of CHECKS AND BALANCES. • FEDERALISM

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