Write these notes in your interactive notebook Introduction Shortly after the start of the Revolutionary war in 1775 many of the new states began to write their new state constitutions Basic Ideas of Government ID: 542588
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How did the state’s govern themselves after the Revolution?
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Introduction
Shortly after the start of the Revolutionary war in 1775, many of the new states began to write their new state constitutions
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Basic Ideas of Government
After the Declaration of Independence, British government in the colonies came to an end.
The colonies were free and independent states.
Each state would have to create a new government. Slide4
Basic Ideas of government
The people wanted state governments that would protect their basic rights and promote the common good.
When they began to write their state constitutions, they used the ideas they had learned from political philosophy.
They also used what they had learned from their own experience with colonial and British government. Slide5
Basic ideas of Government
The ideas included in the state constitutions were not new.
The founders tried to design their new governments with the best ideas from the past. Slide6
Basic Ideas of Government Included
Natural Rights and Higher Law
Social Contract
Popular Sovereignty
Representation
Separation of Powers
Checks and balances
Legislative Supremacy
Look at Pages 85 and 86 in We the People to fill out the chart.