Instructional Focus Document Notes Grade 8/Social Studies

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Instructional Focus Document NotesGrade 8/Social
Studies

• UNIT 02 TITLE Celebrate Freedom Week
• Part 1 Natural Rights

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Celebrate Freedom Week

• Our Natural Rights also known as Unalienable
  Rights are basic rights that we are born with
  that should note be denied by any government.
• These Natural Rights (Unalienable Rights) are
  listed in the Declaration of Independence
  ---written by our founding fathers in 1776---and
  they are Life, Liberty(freedom), and the Pursuit
  of Happiness.

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Celebrate Freedom Week

• Our Founding Fathers identified how these Natural
  Rights were being restricted by the government of
  Great Britain when they listed them in the
  Declaration of Independence. After the
  Revolutionary War, they answered those complaints
  in the U.S. Constitution (written in 1787) by
  guaranteeing those rights to every American
  Citizen.

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• Some examples are

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Celebrate Freedom Week

• Grievances in the Declaration Of Independence
• 1. Taxation without representation
• 2. king has absolute power
• 3. Colonists not allowed to speak out against the
  king
• 4. Quartering Act forced colonists to house
  British soldiers
• 5. Colonists homes could be searched without any
  kind of warrant
• 6. Colonists were not allowed a trial with a jury
  of their peers

• Answered in the Constitution
• 1. All states are represented in Congress
• 2. Congress has the power to override a
  presidential veto
• 3. 1st amendment-Freedom of speech
• 4. 3rd amendment-No quartering of troops
• 5. 4th amendment-No unwarranted search or seizure
• 6. 6th amendment-Speedy and public trial, by an
  impartial juryand
  
• 7th amendment Right to a trial by jury of peers.