Agenda Tues 9/13 & Wed 9/14

• Rap #9: Welfare State

• HW Review: pg 45 Q #1,2,4,5; • pg 54 Q #1-5

• Rap #10: “Hangin’ Out”

• Blast from the Past

• Origins of America Timeline

• Declaration of Independence

• HW: Read CH 2.3 pg 59 Q #2,3;

• Read CH 2.4 pg 71 Q # 1-4

• “Bundles” chart

• EC #1 DUE: Thurs 9/15 & Fri 9/16

Rap #9: Welfare State “The legitimate object of

government, is to do

for a community of

people, whatever they

need to have done, but

can not do, at all, or

can not, so well do, for

themselves—in their

separate and

individual capacities.”

--Abraham Lincoln Explain how the phrase from the

Preamble “promote the general

welfare” relates to this quote.

RAP #10: Hangin’ Out

•Suppose you have worked on

writing the Declaration of

Independence.

•What are you thinking as you

sign this document? In other

words, how do you justify to

your family, friends, and to

yourself that the risk is worth

it?

Blast from the Past

• History Lesson

• No more kings

Origins of American

Government

Chapter 2

Basic Concepts of

Government

• Ordered Government

• Government is organized

• Provides Structure

• Limited Government

• Government only has the power that the

people grant

• Unalienable rights

• Rule of Law (power not absolute)

• Representative

• Government serves the people!!!!!

Important Documents

• Magna Carta (charter)

• 1215

• Protection against monarchy and

pointless laws

• Judicial protection: trial by jury, due

process, life, liberty and property

• English nobles questioned absolute

power

• Rule of Law established

Important Documents

• Petition of Right

• 1628

• Passed by Parliament

• Limited government

• Freedom of speech

• Non-military rule

• English Bill of Rights

• 1689

• Established Parliament’s power over

monarchy

• Limited military

• FREE ELECTIONS

Types of Colonies

• Royal

• Direct control of the king

• Governor named by king

• Proprietary

• King grants land to a person

• They settle and govern the land

• Charter

• Self governing

Early Plans for Revolution

• Albany Plan-

• 1754 Benjamin Franklin

• Create a congress among 13 colonies

• Rejected by King AND the colonists

• Stamp Act Congress

• Reaction to Britain’s tax on all legal

documents, newspapers, etc

• Taxation without representation

• Organized opposition to monarchy

1st

Continental Congress

• 1774

• Response to Intolerable Acts

• Debated plans for separating from

England in the wake of increased

British presence

• Created a Declaration of rights and

organized a boycott (peaceful

opposition)

• Except…militias clash @ Lex &

Concord (Shot heard ‘round the world)

2nd

Continental Congress

• Armed conflict escalates

• 1775- Philadelphia

• First national government of US

• Signed Declaration of Independence

in 1776… what date?

• Created the Articles of Confederation

(early constitution)

1st

& 2nd

Continental

Congress

• The 1st

& 2nd

Continental Congress

rested on no legal base.

• They were put together in haste &

meant to be temporary.

• The 1st

attempt to establish a lasting

gov’t was the Articles of

Confederation.

“Bundles” Chart

Plan/Compromise Kind of states

that benefited

Provisions (Description)

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut

Compromise

(aka The Great

Compromise)

Three-fifths

Compromise

Commerce and

Slave Trade

Compromise