Influences on America's Constitutional
Which enlightenment think influenced the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
Explain the Sugar Act
tax on sugar, coffee, wine and cloth
Introduction of the Declaration of Independence
The Preamble
For Imposing Taxes Without Our Consent
For demanding and collecting money from colonists without their approval
What are the two types of citizens?
Natural born and Naturalized
Which document encouraged early settlers to create a self-government and emphasized consent of the governed?
*hint: this is a example of John Locke's Social Contract*
Mayflower Compact
Explain the Stamp Act
Required legal documents, playing cards, insurance, newspapers, and pamphlets to have stamps
Second section of the Declaration of Independence and the Enlightenment thinker who influenced it?
Ideas about government
John Locke
For Depriving Us, In Many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury
For taking away the right to a jury of peers during trial
Define rule of law
no one is above the law
Which founding document fanned the flames of Independence and encouraged us to break away from Great Britian?
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Explain the Townshend Act
Tax on lead, glass, tea, paint, and other household goods
Identify the third Section of the Declaration of Independence and provide one example
Colonial Grievances
For quartering large Bodies of Armed troops among us
For forcing colonists to house and feed troops
List the 5 obligations of a citizen
Pay taxes
Obey laws
Jury Duty
Selective Service/Defend the nation
Attend schools
Principle that influenced the limiting of government powers and purposes
Limited Government
Explain the Quatering and Declaratory acts
Required colonists to house and feed troops
Gave Great Britain the power to pass laws in the colonies
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
Grievances
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers
The king is preventing justice by refusing to approve laws that give judges power. The judges are completely dependent on the Kings will.
Acronym and influences of Ancient Rome
C3RS
Civic participation, rule of law, representative government, republicanism
Explain the Intolerable Acts
Closed the Boston Harbor
Moved trial by jury to New England
Banned town meetings
Reinforced the quatering act
We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, such as the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Ideas about gov/natural rights section
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with the Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.
The king stopped colonists from making laws for themselves, instead him and parliament made laws for the colonies.
Acronym and influences of Ancient Greece
PCLVW
Polis, Civic participation, Legislative bodies, voting rights, written constitution