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Engaging with America's Founding Documents: Revisiting the Declaration of Independence

Join Jesse Watters as he delves into the meaning of America's "Founding Documents" and rewrites the Declaration of Independence in plain English. Explore images that depict founding principles and discuss conflicts that arise from different interpretations. We'll also examine current issues like drones, cyber terrorism, and cell phone privacy in relation to these foundational documents. Don't miss this opportunity to apply the principles of the past to modern life!

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Engaging with America's Founding Documents: Revisiting the Declaration of Independence

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  1. Engage: Jesse Watters and US History

  2. Founding Documents

  3. We will: Identify what is meant by America's "Founding Documents" • I will: Re-write the Declaration of Independence in "plain-English"

  4. Images of Principles: Which Founding Principles of America are illustrated in these pictures?

  5. Do these images also violate those principles? Why or Why Not?

  6. Conflicts WILL ALWAYS arise because: • Interpretations will be different • Democracy allows for arguments.

  7. 2nd Amendment: • A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

  8. Current Issues that did not exist with the Founding Fathers: • Drones • Cyber Terrorism • Cell phone Privacy: Who Owns your Tweets? • Founding documents tell us what our basic liberties are. • We have to try to apply those principles to modern life!

  9. Our country is based on a series of founding documents. • Declaration of Independence • Articles of Confederation • North West Ordinance • Constitution • Bill of Rights

  10. NOTES: The Declaration of Independence • “Statement of democratic principles NOT a framework for government” • Describes FUNDAMENTAL POLITICAL IDEALS (Enlightenment) • Social Contract… • Consent of the Governed… • Separation of Powers…

  11. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

  12. Exit Slip • I can…identify several grievances listed in the D.of.I and connect them to their relationship to Enlightenment ideas. • Write a full paragraph, citing evidence for your answer.

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