The Revolutionary Period

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The Revolutionary Period

• The Founding and Declaration

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3 Central Ideas

• A foundation of natural rights
• We hold these truths to be self evident
• You are born with these rights
• Locke got the idea from the bible and the
  reformation.
• Every person is made in the image of God and has
  Gods values.

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3 Central Ideas

• A Notion of Consent
• Most people in history have not consented to
  government.
• Athens, Rome, and USA
• Consent is rare

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3 Central Ideas

• View of Man as Fallen, Finite, and Frail
• Had every Athenian been a Socrates, every
  Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.-
  James Madison
• If man was left to themselves they would seek to
  dominate each other

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3 Central Ideas

• The purpose of the founding was to create a
  machine so complicated no single man could master
  it

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The Declaration

• Written by 33 year old Thomas Jefferson
• He was said to have a good pen
• When it was signed they became outlaws
• Houses burned, died in poverty
• None changed sides

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It Was

• A revolutionary charter
• Scientific Paper
• Cause and Effect When in the course of human
  events..
• Previous sentences list injustices-proving their
  conclusion

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It Was

• Moral Paper
• Self-evident, created equal, rights