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What did the Founders think about constitutional government?

What did the Founders think about constitutional government?. WtheP Lesson 1. Ms. Ramos. What were some characteristics of colonial America?. Ms. Ramos. 1. Treaty of Paris. Led by Benjamin Franklin, with John Adams & John Jay.

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What did the Founders think about constitutional government?

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  1. What did the Founders think about constitutional government? WtheP Lesson 1 Ms. Ramos

  2. What were some characteristics of colonial America? Ms. Ramos

  3. 1. Treaty of Paris • Led by Benjamin Franklin, with John Adams & John Jay http://www.marylandsar.org/SAR-Images/articles/wagner-treaty-of-paris.jpg Ms. Ramos

  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 Ms. Ramos

  5. English Dutch French German Norwegian Spanish Swedish Welsh Scottish Gaelic Finnish Irish African languages Native American languages 2. Languages spoken in colonies Ms. Ramos

  6. 3. Native Americans • Disease reduced population • Viewed as people to be conquered & assimilated http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-nativeamerican/FoundingFathers.jpg Ms. Ramos

  7. Ms. Ramos http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/vahistory/images/sign.gif

  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 Ms. Ramos

  9. How did the Founders learn about government? Ms. Ramos

  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 Ms. Ramos http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/images/aristotle.jpg

  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. http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/cicero.jpg Ms. Ramos

  12. Self-restraint & limits to action for sake of self interest Ms. Ramos

  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 http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/images/Thomas_Hobbes.jpg Ms. Ramos

  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 http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/ga/ul/955004900041/inlineimg/Y/John_Locke.jpg Ms. Ramos

  15. 5. Montesquieu • The Spirit of the Laws • Banned by Catholic Church for “liberal” views • Separation of pwrs • Checks & balances http://demokrato.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/500px-montesquieu_1.png Ms. Ramos

  16. 6. William Blackstone http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/news/events/blackstone.png • 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 Ms. Ramos

  17. Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 9 • Argued history is not a good guide for creating government, because of many bad examples—Greece & Italy Ms. Ramos

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