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ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. BASIC CONCEPTS OF GOVERNMENT. English colonists brought 3 ideas to North American that would help shape the government of the United States ordered government

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ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

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  1. ORIGINS OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

  2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF GOVERNMENT • English colonists brought 3 ideas to North American that would help shape the government of the United States • ordered government • local governments to regulate relationships in a community (sheriff, justice of the peace, tax assessor) • limited government • which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away. • representative government • public policies are made by officials selected by the voters and held accountable in periodic elections

  3. LANDMARK ENGLISH DOCUMENTS • These notions of government can be traced to several landmark documents in English history. • The Magna Carta • The Petition of Right • The English Bill of Rights

  4. Magna Carta - 1215 • Required the King of England to proclaim certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by law. • It protected certain rights of the King's subjects.

  5. Petition of Right - 1628 • It was addressed to Charles I of England by the English Parliament. • Attempted to seek redress (remedy) of certain actions of the King.

  6. English Bill of Rights – 1689 (Declaration of Rights) • An act of the English Parliament. • Largely a statement of certain rights that citizens and/or permanent residents of a constitutional monarchy were thought to be entitled to in the late 17th century.

  7. RESPONSE TO BRITISH COLONIAL POLICIES • Growing frustration with the policies of the British led colonial leaders to meet to discuss the issues.

  8. THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES • First Continental Congress • The colonists sent a Declaration of Rights to King George III. • The delegates urged each of the colonies to refuse all trade with England until British tax and trade regulations were repealed, or recalled.

  9. THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES • Second Continental Congress • In 1775, each of the 13 colonies sent representatives to this gathering in Philadelphia. • The Second Continental Congress served as the first government of the United States from 1776 to 1781.

  10. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE • Almost a year after the War for Independence began Richard Henry Lee proposed the colonies ought to be free and independent states.

  11. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE • primary author was Thomas Jefferson • an attack against King George III for the long abuses against the colonists • issued by the Continental Congress and adopted on July 4, 1776 • it has become one of the most important statements of American political philosophy

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