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The Northwest Ordinance held three objectives to be taught in schools: Religion, Mortality, and Knowledge.
2 Only things that were universally accepted by all faiths could be taught under religious precepts.
Principles:
1) One God, the creator of the Universe
2) He governs by his providence
3) He should be worshiped
4) The most acceptable service given to him is serving his other children
5) The soul of man is immortal and should be treated with justice
3 Religion takes no direct part in government, but is regarded the first of their political institutions.
4 Jefferson attempted to disestablish the church of Virginia, which didn't work up until ten years later. Patrick Henry introduced a bill, "Establishing a Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion." The funds collected for provision for a minister or place of worship.
5 They felt it would have been catastrophic and might have precipitated civil strife.
6 "A wall of separation between church and state."
7 They were told to define establishments where religion could and could not be taught for all religions.
1 He who tries the most to promote the countries virtue and won't suffer a man to be chosen into office who isn't wise and virtuous.
2 He wants it by Natural Aristocracy, by virtue and talents, not wealth and birth.
3 There is no other occupation which human virtue is held so closely to than that of founding new states or preserving old ones.
4 They like the pay-off but the pay-off used to be the honor given. They must also make sacrifice to be a good and wise leader.
5 The nation will be divided, have a distracted council, hurry into fruitless wars and come into dishonorable terms of peace.
6 They attended committees and meetings along with making pricipies, discovering what did not work and writing books that held great wisdom.
1 They wondered whether or not the people were sufficiently virtuous and moral to govern themselves.
2 The essay, Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine made people think and desire better things and freedom.
3 They began to realize their neglect of public affairs and their obsession with self-interest.
1 Cicero showed courage. He wrote the formula for happy human relationships.
2 It's of universal application, unchanging, and everlasting. It summons to duty by its commands and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions.
3 They both can reason and think.
4 He thought of love as a mighty social bond.
5 All law should be measured against God's law.
6 a) Unalienable Rights
b) Limited Government
c) Separation of Powers
d) Checks and Balances
e) Self-Preservation
f) Family and Marriage
1 a) Fascism- is on the far right.
b) Communism- is on the far left.
They are virtually identical, however.
2 a) Ruler's Law means there is too much government.
b) No Law means there is no systematic control.
3 a) Authority is nearly always established.
b) All sovereign power is considered to be the conqueror.
c) The people have no unalienable rights.
d) Freedom is never looked upon as a viable solution to anything.
e) The lot of the common people is one of perpetual poverty.
4 a) They considered themselves a common wealth of freedom.
b) All decisions and selections had to be with consent of the people.
c) Primary responsibility for resolving problems rested first of all with the individual and lastly the nation.
d) Severe punishment unless there was complete reparation to the person who'd been wronged.
e) Only the most complex cases.
5 Anglo-Saxons and ancient Israel were the civilizations admired by the Founders.
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