The Enlightenment & The Constitution
Published on Nov 21, 2015
How did the age of Enlightenment affect the creation of the Constitution? AP Project Connor McIlveen
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How did the Age of Enlightenment affect the creation of the Constitution?
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Remake in pp General Outline
- Background of Enlightnement
- Background of Constitution
- How Enlightenment led to the constitution
- Enlightenment ideas in the constitution
- Recap
Background
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Thomas Hobbes
"Human life is nasty, brutish and short."
John Locke
Natural rights
Montesquieu
Separation of powers
Rousseau
social contract
Voltaire
separation of church and state
US Constitution
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1787
Federalists vs Antifederalists
Still used today!
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How the Enlightenment led to the Constitution
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American Revolution
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Weak Articles of Confederation
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All this leads to creation of the Constitution!
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Almost all Constitutional ideas came from earlier European thought
It influenced the rights of the people
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It created the want of a true democracy
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Hobbes & Hamilton
How did the Age of Enlightenment affect the creation of the Constitution?
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The Age of Enlightenment helped spark the events that would lead to the creation of the constitution as well as inspiring what would be written in it.
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