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Colonial Roots and Framers' Legacy: The Constitutional Blueprint

This comprehensive guide delves into the foundational documents, influential figures, and key events that shaped the American Constitution. Explore the origins of democracy, the Enlightenment ideas, and the framers' shared beliefs in limited government. Discover how the Founding Fathers navigated political conflicts to create a system of checks and balances. Uncover the intellectual origins behind the Constitution and the evolution from colonial governance to a federal system. This resource illuminates the intertwined threads of history that culminated in the birth of American democracy.

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Colonial Roots and Framers' Legacy: The Constitutional Blueprint

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  1. Constitutional Underpinnings Origins, Articles & Framers

  2. Colonial Bingo

  3. Colonial Bingo

  4. Group alike things together and give each group a heading Documents • Common Sense • Declaration of Independence • Magna Carta • Mayflower Compact • English Bill of Rights • Bill of Rights • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut • Articles of Confederation People • Locke • Rousseau • Montesquieu • Jefferson • Madison • Paine • Hobbs Groups • Anti-Federalist • Federalist Governments • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut • Articles of Confederation The Enlightenment • Locke • Rousseau • Montesquieu • Hobbs

  5. Group alike things together and give each group a heading Things – English • Magna Carta • English Bill of Rights • Glorious Revolution • Parliament Books • Two Treaties on Government • Leviathan • The Social Contract • Common Sense Compromises • Great Compromise • VA Plan • NJ Plan Pairs • Article of Confederation & Shay’s Rebellion • Constitution & Bill of Rights • Common Sense & Declaration of Independence • House of Burgesses & Mayflower Compact

  6. Intellectual Origin of the Constitution • The Founders used Enlightenment thinkers to justify opposition to the British government • Reason, natural laws, progress, liberty, toleration • Locke • Natural rights • Social contract • Baron de Montesquieu • 3 branches • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Popular sovereignty • Impeachment, recall

  7. The Articles of Confederation

  8. Shay’s Rebellion

  9. The Framers • Men at the Constitutional Convention • GW, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, etc • Jefferson calls it an “assembly of demi-gods” • . Shared Ideas by Framers • Human Nature • Self-centered • “love of power and love of money” Franklin • Political Conflict • Uneven distribution of wealth causes factions and conflict • Gov’t must regulate conflict • Solve problem between “excessive democracy” under AOC and tyranny under King • Solution= limited gov’t w/ checks and balances

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