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FIRST, watch the lecture video today on the Articles of Confederation. Second, you may move on to this reading guide. The three reading guides correlate to the three chapters of this reading you are going to begin reading in class today.
Please complete these reading guides in your notebook and then post images into Google Classroom. I would like these to be handwritten and in your own words
Chapter 2: The Constitution
Directions: Fill Each Box With Information Important To Gaining A Clear Understanding Of The Topic
1.4 Challenges of the
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation Foundational Document:
The Articles of Confederation
Weaknesses in the Articles of
Confederation
Financial Problems and Inability to Tax Shay’s Rebellion
Think as a Political Scientist: Explain how the author’s argument and perspective relate to political principles
Practice: Read the excerpt about Shay’s Rebellion on page 31 and explain the author’s argument. Also, explain the political
principles of the authors that would have influence their opinion.
1. Explain the author’s main argument.
2. Explain the political principles of the authors that would have influenced their opinion.
Essential Question: How did the provisions of the Articles of Confederation lead to debates over granting powers formerly
reserved for states to the federal government?
Provisions From the Articles of Confederation: How the Provisions Proved to be a Weakness:
Chapter 1: Founding Principles
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1.3 Government Power and
Individual Rights
Federalist Support the Constitution James Madison Foundational Document:
Federalist No. 10
Anti-Federalist Opposition to the
Constitution
Think as a Political Scientist: Describe Political Principles
Practice: Compare the following directions.
1. Define faction, or interest group.
2. Give an example of a faction
3. Describe the opposing views on the role and importance of factions. Be sure to include:
● Who would have supported and who would have opposed factions?
● Why was there support for and oppositions for factions?
Foundational Document:
Brutus No. 1
Opposing Views Regarding
Government and Democracy:
Federalists
Opposing Views Regarding
Government and Democracy: Anti-
Federalists
Essential Question: How are Federalist and Anti-Federalists
views on central government and democracy reflected in
America’s foundational documents?
Central Government
● Federalists
● Anti-Federalists
Evidence from Foundational
Documents
● Federalists
● Anti-Federalists
Chapter 1: Founding Principles
Directions: Fill Each Box With Information Important To Gaining A Clear Understanding Of The Topic
1.1 Ideals of Democracy Thomas Hobbes and The Leviathan John Locke and Natural Law Natural Law
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and The
Social Contract
Popular Sovereignty Baron Montesquieu and The Spirit of
the Laws
Republicanism
Think as a Political Scientist: Describe how the principle of limited government applies to each of the following scenarios.
Practice: Describe how the principle of limited government applies to each of the following scenarios.
1. The state government establishes laws governing the legal age to drive.
2. A case before the Supreme Court determines whether a person can be fired for being LGBTQ.
3. The United States Department of Agriculture issues nutritional guidelines.
Thomas Jefferson John Adams Benjamin Franklin Foundational Document:
The Declaration of Independence
Decentralized federal government
under…
Convention in Philadelphia for the
sole purpose of….
James Madison George Washington
Alexander Hamilton Grand Committee Big Idea: The U.S. Constitution establishes
a system of checks and balances among
branches of government and allocates
power between federal and state
governments. This system is based on the
rule of law and the balance between
majority rule and minority rights.
Representative Republic
Essential Question: How are democratic ideals reflected in the
Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?
Democratic Ideals Examples in the Founding
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