roots of american governmentAncient Greece,Rome,France and England

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Ancient Greece and Direct Democracy

This is a form of government in which citizens rule and make laws directly rather than through representatives. In Athens, more citizens were actively involved in government than in any other city- state.

In a speech, Pericles expressed his great pride in Athenian democracy when he said, “Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.”

Rome and the Republic

In 509 B.C., a group of Roman aristocrats overthrew a harsh king. They set up a new government, calling it a republic. A republic is a form of government in which power rests with citizens who have the right to elect the leaders who make governmental decisions. It is an indirect democracy, in contrast to the direct democ-racy in which all citizens participate directly in the government. In Rome, as in Greece, citizenship with voting rights was granted only to free-born males.

The Magna Carta

The first time in history that a Monarch’s(king) power was limited by the aristocracy

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=114193

English Bill of Rights

1689-the Parliament (its LEGISLATIVE BRANCH) became more powerful than the Monarch

The Parliament created the English Bill of Rights

What might be some of those rights?

What is reason?Ask John Locke...

Reason= the power and the ability to think clearly

Law of Nature?

John Locke- Natural Rights

The right to life

The right to liberty

The right to pursuit of happiness

What is Separation of Powers?Ask

Montesquieu...

A system of CHECKS and BALANCES

Montestesquieu (French)

List three influences on the United States of

America’s government