Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Questions to Guide American History

Here are the questions you began to copy down in class. Together we discussed and answered the first five. We'll work some more on the rest tomorrow in class, both in discussion and using the textbook. They will be due this Friday.


What is democracy and where did the idea originate?

What is a republic and where did the idea originate?

What is “rule of law” and where did the idea originate?

What is a covenant and where did the idea originate?

What is Natural Law?

How did the Protestant Reformation influence the American founding?

What did Thomas Hobbes think was the ideal government and why?

What did John Locke think was the ideal government and why?

Who was Voltaire and which of his ideas is very influential in the American founding?

What did Baron Montesquieu think was the ideal government and why?

What is the idea of a Social Contract?

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