Agenda

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Agenda

• BW Complete MC questions, get out hwk
• CW Notes/Discussion
• CW 2 Reading and questions
• WARNING Possibility of a pop quiz Friday
• Quote of the Day.
• People shouldnt be afraid of their governments.
  Governments should be afraid of their people. - V

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• The clergy (or church) expressed the most
  opposition to the scientific method.

Galileo before the papal court
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Why would the Church be opposed to Scientific
method?
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• As a result of the Scientific Revolution, reason
  and experimentation was applied to political
  thinking.

The Enlightenment
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What was the Enlightenment? Notes 5B
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• It was a time in the 1700s, in which
  philosophers examined natural laws governing the
  universe (like scientists of the Scientific
  Revolution did).

Drafting the Declaration of Independence ?
Galileo ?
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• Philosophers were interested in changing peoples
  relationship with their government.

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• They believed that government decisions should be
  based on laws of nature and reason.

U.S. Constitution
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Philosophers

• John Locke believed that governments should
  protect peoples natural rights.

Declaration of Independence ?
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• Rousseau believed that the power of the
  government should be derived from those who are
  governed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• Voltaire believed in free speech.
• Montesquieu believed in a separation of
  governmental powers.

Voltaire
Baron de Montesquieu
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Effects

• The philosophers encouraged the American and
  French Revolutions due to their support for
  natural rights.

American Revolution ?
French Revolution ?