Lesson Plan 6

by | Nov 23, 2018

Lesson Plan 9

VIDEO: Watch SIA 101.6: Declaration of Independence – Part VI (Video time: 46 minutes)

REQUIRED READING: The first two paragraphs and the final paragraph of Thomas Jefferson’s essay, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” which he wrote in 1774, two years before the Declaration of Independence.

TERMS, PEOPLE, & PLACES TO IDENTIFY
Where there is a time mark, the answer is provided at the time indicated in the relevant podcast or video. Where there is no time mark indicated, the student should look up in a book or perform an Internet search for the term, person, or place.

  1. Unalienable
  2. Coffers
  3. Columnist
  4. Revolutionaries
  5. Venal
  6. Loyalists
  7. Tories
  8. Magistrate
  9. Justice
  10. Govern
  11. Legitimize
  12. Abolish
  13. Prudence
  14. Duty
  15. Despotism
  16. Review Thomas Jefferson
  17. Review Aristotle

STUDY QUESTIONS

  1. Review Natural Rights from SIA 101.5
  2. How is the idea of universal individual natural rights useful? (00:40 – 1:41)
  3. Natural rights are synonymous with what? (1:48 – 2:35)
  4. Do you need a government to have natural rights? (2:40 – 5:00)
  5. What are some examples of natural freedoms? (2:40 – 5:00)
  6. What are some examples of things that are not natural freedoms? (2:40 – 5:00)
  7. How do you know the difference? (2:40 -5:00)
  8. What was the first conflict in British North America that led up to the revolutionary war? (6:00 -10:52)
  9. What phrase came out of that conflict? (6:00 – 10:52)
  10. How did the revolutionaries view government? (10:53 – 16:45)
  11. Can the freedom of a human life (a body) be separated from the freedom of a mind? (16:45 – 18:00)
  12. What are the first three self-evident truths in the Declaration of Independence? (18:50)
  13. What is the forth self-evident truth in the Declaration of Independence? (19:50)
  14. What three self-evident truths precede government? (20:17 – 21:20)
  15. According to the Declaration of Independence what is created by human beings? (21:20 – 22:20)
  16. What is the modern (popular) view of government today? (22:40 – 23:33)
  17. Is the modern (popular) view of government the same as the view of government in the Declaration of Independence? (22:40 – 23:33)
  18. What is the purpose of government according to the Declaration of Independence? (23:33 – 24:15)
  19. According to the Declaration of Independence government has a limited purpose, what is it? (25:21)
  20. How might people limit the power of government? (27:30)
  21. What two things are required for government to be legitimate? (28:00 – 33:00)
  22. Why are these two things necessary? (29:24)
  23. Why is consent necessary but not sufficient to make government legitimate? (32:00)
  24. Why is it difficult to have a legitimate government? (33:01)
  25. What is to be done when citizens can’t have both consent and justice? (35:00 – 36:40)
  26. Abraham Lincoln held the idea of having both consent and justice together in government to be the ideal and questioned whether we can have both; we today can ask the same question. Whether this can be achieved or not restate what is the principle (goal) of a legitimate government? (37:00 – 39:40)
  27. What is the fifth self-evident truth? (39:41)
  28. Why is the fifth self-evident truth radical? (41:00 – 42:16)
  29. Can government be abolished peacefully? (42:17)
  30. What does it mean to throw off a government? (43:14)

ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READING