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Name ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Period _____
Date _____________________
Benchmark: SS.7.C.1.1- Recognize how Enlightenment ideas including Montesquieu’s view of separation of power and John Locke’s theories related to
natural law and how Locke’s social contract influenced the Founding Fathers.
Essential Question: What evidence can be used to prove that the United States’ democratic ideals were influenced by John Locke and
Montesquieu?
Source
Main Idea / Message / Important Details
How does this document answer the essential
question?
Source 1
Excerpt from the
Declaration of
Independence
retrieved fromhttp://www.ushistory.org/
Declaration/document/ on
6/23/2015
Source 2
Checks and Balances
chart
retrieved fromhttp://www.wpclipart.co
m/American_History/US
_government_checks_and
_balances.svgon
6/23/2015
Source 3
Montesquieu quote
retrieved from-the
federalist papers on
6/23/2015
Source 4
John Locke quote
retrieved fromhttp://www.apisanet.co
m/nnhcontent/uploads/j
o/john-locke-quotes.jpg
on 6/23/2015
Thesis:
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SOURCE 1
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Source-http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
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SOURCE 2
Source- http://www.wpclipart.com/American_History/US_government_checks_and_balances.svg
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SOURCE 3
Source-http://thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/gallery/baron-demontesquieu/thumbs/thumbs_montesquieu-legislativeandexecutive.jpg
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SOURCE 4
Source- http://www.apisanet.com/nnh-content/uploads/jo/john-locke-quotes.jpg