Journal

This should be completed quietly, and independently. Provide 3-5 complete sentences.

Natural rights are those that people are born with that governments shouldn’t be allowed to take away. List 3 rights that you consider to be natural rights. Why these?

Unit 2

The Age of Enlightenment

Enlightenment- 2 Typesreligious or spiritual

enlightenmentintellectual

enlightenment.

The eighteenth century is the Age of Enlightenment.  The Enlightenment popularizes the ideas developed during the Age of Reason.  The Enlightenment is basically the view or belief that modern science and our understanding of the social world derived from modern science can help us to improve the living conditions on this planet.  War, poverty, and injustice are not God-given punishments for our sinfulness but bad management.  Oppressive governments can be reformed or overthrown.  Social inequality can be alleviated and, maybe, overcome.  Disease is not to be accepted stoically but to be fought with new medicines.  Poverty can be reduced through the productivity of new inventions and technologies.  Ignorance can be overcome through universal public education.  Human societies are perfectible if only we have the will and use our scientific knowledge to plan and socially engineer for a better future.  There is no limit to what human reason and ingenuity can achieve.

Pair-ShareWhat was the enlightenment?

What enlightenment philosophers contributed ideas to our form of government today and what were their ideas?

What was the Enlightenment?

An intellectual movement; thinkers used reason and the scientific method to help them understand their world especially in government

They said that God did not give people the right to rule

Instead, the right to rule came from the people.

Gallery WalkSTEP 1: Walk around the room and read the

placards on the wall that describe the ideas of the important Enlightenment philosophers.

STEP 2: Complete the corresponding WORKSHEET: Gallery Walk – The Enlightenment Philosophers.

STEP 3: When you have finished, complete the wrap-up question on your worksheet.

Enlightenment

Philosophers

Think Pair ShareIf we had an established religion in the

United States, how would that impact our laws?

Gay MarriageAbortionShould we have an official religion? Why or

why not? Give supporting detailsWould an official religion make life easier?

Interpret these quotes: think pair shareThe natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior

power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.Locke, John. The Second Treatise of Civil Government. 1690.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny, and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy. - Thomas Hobbes.

Influenced a number of DocumentsDeclaration of Independence, July 1776

The U.S. ConstitutionThe French Revolution and The Declaration of

Rights of Man

The Haitian Independence Movement in 1791

Latin American Wars for Independence in Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru during the Early 1800s