Starter 9.5: A Significant Omission…..
Read the omitted passage from the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:
To what is Jefferson referring?
Why do you think Congress removed this from the adopted draft?
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation hither … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Discuss Declaration Packet. (TURN IT IN!)
What are the ideologies upon which our country is founded?
What bias did you see in each of the historian excerpts?
The American Revolution: Crash Course US History
John Green says, “If you are going to base your society on philosophy, you should try to found it on ideals that are as inclusive and humanistic as possible--because the people executing those ideals with never be ideal.”
Speaking of founding philosophy, here is a dose of rhetoric from the Constitution:
- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
REVIEW: What are the ideas upon which our nation is based?
Four corners:
- America is living up to the ideals set forth in our founding documents.
- America’s historical hypocrisy undermines the philosophical basis for our democracy.
Journal 9.5:
Free-write on your main take-aways from the discussion we have been having about America. Try to sum up the perspective you are holding that made you align yourself to the corners you chose.