Origins of American Government

Objective

SWBAT analyze primary source documents in order to examine the origins of American

Government.

Warm-Up

DEFINITION DRAWING or DESCRIPTION

Unitary Government

EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE

Make a Frayer Model for Unitary Government

Agenda

•Objective and Warm-Up

•INM: The Magna Carta and Locke

•GP: How to evaluate a Primary Source Document

•IP: Evaluating Two Treatises of Government

•Exit Slip

How you did as a class...


limited government

EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE

a government where leaders do not have

all of the power.

U.S.A. gov’t is limited because

of the Constitution

A totalitarian dictatorship


social contract

EXAMPLE NON-EXAMPLE

when society agrees to give up control to

a government in exchange for a

benefit.

You agree to follow class rules

in order to receive

knowledge

When somebody forces you to do something you don’t want to.

The Magna Carta• Presents the concept of limited

government.

• Government cannot do things, such as tax people, without the approval of the majority

• Says that people are born with natural rights

• life, liberty, and property

• Government cannot take them away without a good reason

Thomas Hobbes

• A social contract theorist

• Believes people will be at war without government

• Without government, life is horrible and full of conflict

• Government should have unlimited authority

• The rights of people should not be a concern

John Locke• A social contract theorist

• Believes that people are naturally peaceful

• Society enters an agreement to be governed in return for protection in a justice system

• If society doesn’t like the government, then it can change it

• Men have rights by their nature: life, liberty, and property

Primary Source Documents

• What is a Primary Source document?

• A document or speech that is closest to the person, information, period, or idea that is being studied.

• Ex. A YouTube video of a fight.

• Non-Ex. Reading an article about the fight.

• How do we analyze a Primary Source document?

• We use the AP-PARTS system.

What is AP-PARTS?

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Who created it?

When and where was it produced?

What do you already know?

For whom was it created?

Why was it produced?

What is the source trying to say?

Why is it important?

Guided Practice

• Take out a copy of the Government text book

• Turn to page 35, and the section titled Limited Government. READ IT.

• Then turn to page 802.

• We are going to examine the Magna Carta as a class and fill in our AP-PARTS graphic organizer.

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British Landowners (Nobles) and signed by King John

England in 1215

People are born with natural rights: Life, liberty, and property.

For King John and the Nobles

To remind the King that his power was limited.

Government’s power is limited in England. The natural rights of people cannot be

taken away.It served as a model for limiting the powers

of government, such as in the U.S.A.

Independent Practice

• Partner with a person next to you;

• Turn to page 806 in your text;

• Complete the AP-PARTS graphic organizer for Two Treatises of Government;

• You have 25 minutes to complete the graphic organizer.

Homework:

Fill in the flashcard worksheet by writing in the definition for each term included.

All terms were covered in Unit 1.

Exit Slip:

1.You will have 5 minutes to complete today’s exit slip.

2.Please only write the letter of your answer in the appropriate blank.

3.Complete it in silence.

4.When you are done, carefully check over your answers.

5.After checking your answers, please begin your homework.

3, 2, 1, See Ya!

What are 3 things that you learned today?

What are 2 things that confused you?

What is 1 thing you want to know more about?