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Tohmas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a philisophic thinker. Hobbes had the idea of social contract. Social contract is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Today we don't use social contract because we are free and prtected. -
John Locke
John Locke believed in natural rights and life, liberty, property. Natural rights are any right that exists by virtue of natural law. Life, liberty, and property(pursuit to happiness) is consider a natural right. We use natural rights today, they are rights everyone is born with no matter nationality or ethnicity. -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu came up with The Spirit of Laws, it was basically a rough draft of the three government branches we use to this day. He came up with this idea to separate power. The three branches we use today are the executive, judicial, and the legislative branch. -
François-Marie Arouet (Voltarie)
Voltarie came up with two parts of the first amendment, Freedom of Speech and Religion. The first ten amendments are called The Bill of Rights. He also came up with fair trial. Fair trial is a trail in which people get accused guilty or non guitly, we use this method today in society. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau was basicaly a summary of the other four philosphers combined. He thought the same about most ideas from the four philosphors and also added "Man is Born Free." "Man is Born Free" was what the idea is, every man is born free. Today everyone is born free. -
Geoge Whashington
George Washington was the President of the United States between 1789-1797. He was a general in the Revolutionary war aginst Great Britain and France he was fighting with a small and frigile army. After Geoge was no longer president he moved back to his home back in Virginia on a lage piece of land were he later died. George Washington can connect to Locke because he belived in life,liberty,property. -
John Adams
He was the first vice president and the second president of the U.S. in 1774 he served in the first continental congress, hehelped draft the Decliration of Indipendance. Adams was Against salvery and had tried very hard to abolish it .He was siding toward natural rights for all people witch was a direct relation to Jean-Jacques -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was the President of the Untited States in 1801-1809. He also created the Declariation of Indpendence in June-July 1776. It was ratified on the death date of himself and John Adams July 4. Jefferson. Jefferson was a believer in neutrality amoungst people this directly correlated to some of Rousseae pholsophy -
The Grievances of British Subjects in the American Colonies
The grievances of the British subjects were centered around taxation without representation. British colonists wanted to have a voice in their government and wanted to be treated fairly by the British king. John Locke felt that everyone was born with natural rights and their rights could not be taken away from them. The British subjects felt that they deserved to be represented in the government and their voices to be heard.Trade was also very controlled by the British king which upset colonist -
Revolution
The American Revolution was a war fought so that the thirteen colonies could gain independence from the British Government who still owned them. The British colonists wanted to start their own country and still have power in their own colonies much like our state and national government operate today. Voltaire would be associated with this kind of thinking. He was a French writer who wanted freedom of speech, religion, and trade. These were exactly the ideals that the British colonists wanted. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. It states that the thirteen colonies were now independent sovergien states. John Locke inluenced it by having the idea of life,liberty, and the pursuit to happeness. -
Federalists and Anti Federalists Authors and Arguments
Federalists were a group of men who favored a strong national government which gave little power to the individual state governments. Anti-Federalists were opposed to the national government having too much power over the state governments. These different views were formed because of a difference of opinion while Constitution was being revised. Writers of the Constitution who later split in their views were Federalists: George Washington, James Madison, Alex Hamilton who were wealthy land owner -
Articles of Confederation and It's Problems
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the US. This plan failed and lead to problems. One of the problems is that is had a weak central government. It also had a loose confederation of soverign states. -
The Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance was a set of rules that a piece of land had to pass in order to become a state. This was neccesary so that no state was greater than another. -
US Constitution
The U.S. Constitution has seven articles in it, also known as the preamble. The Constitution has twenty-seven amendments. This document is a living document which means that it can be changed. Some ideas from Montesqieu that influenced the US Constitution is the seperation of power and balance. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments of the Constitution. These ten amendments are some of the most well known amendments. Some ideas from John Locke influenced the Bill of Rights, like all men are born free and inalienable rights.
