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=Preston=

Mine is a broad category that dips over with other's to a degree. Also please note that the paragraphs are in no particular order and are more or less sentences that I'll take apart and put into the final draft.

Natural Rights supporters stress the rights of the individual and while they are not focused on securing the common good, they also realize that citizens must keep the common good in mind to have a successful society. They believe that people are motivated by their self interests and that all people should have equal opportunity to pursue their own welfare regardless of the situation or group to which they are born.

No documents better express the Founders’ views about government than the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. In the Declaration of Independence you will find mention of “inalienable rights” such as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson writes that “to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This quotation best sums up how the theory of Natural Rights has influenced the Framers’ views about government. The purpose of the government is to protect the rights of the individual so that they may pursue their own happiness.

Natural Rights supporters believe strongly that the government should preserve their civic rights such as the freedom of speech, religion, press, and privacy. They also believe that the government should preserve their political rights such as the right to vote, the right to run for office, and the rights of the accused. To Natural Rights supporters the Bill of Rights isn’t so much a document granting them their rights but rather a document establishing the government’s promise to secure those rights for their people.

Natural Rights theorists like John Locke believe that all people are born with certain inalienable rights and that they come together to form governments in order to secure these rights. People form a social contract with each other and give up certain rights and take on certain duties so that they can form a functioning society with lasting peace and order. People like John Locke believe that if a government does not secure it’s people’s rights then they abolish the government and form a new one that will do its duty.

=James=

I'm going to explain how classical republicanism is different than natural rights philosophy, how it is included in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and why classical republicans stressed the need for education and preparation for citizenship.

Classical republicanism stressed the need to have a community and that a government's main issue should be "the furtherance of the common welfare." Where Natural Rights philosophy was more focused on the individual and protecting individual rights.Part of Classical Republicanism is that most republics of the past have been of a small population of people who generally shared a common value system. Great wealth disparities in a republic would make the republic fall apart. "A small community populated by a predominantly middleclass citizenry which shared common attitudes and goals would be more likely to reach agreement about what the common welfare is than a large heterogeneous population." Rome was the greatest example of this, too much conquest and too much wealth spread between too few people led to much civil war.

In the Constitution, the Founding Fathers conjoined these two philosophies by stating "that the furtherance of the common welfare is accomplished by protection of individual natural rights." They thought that the only government type that could achieve this goal was the republic type of government. "Sovereign authority resided in the body of the people rather that in a monarchy." Americans were obsessed with the idea of Rome, which was what the greatest republic up til then was. The Constitution consists of many compromises between the individual rights of Natural Rights philosophy and the common good of Classical Republicanism.

Classical Republicans stress the need for education and they want people to prepare for citizenship. Moral education was important to Classical Republicans because if citizens were not educated in their history and values they would not be able to participate in society correctly. This education was important in preparing people for citizenship. If people were not prepared to join their society they would not function well and would become a drag on the community. So the reason that education and preparation for citizenship were stressed was because Classical Republicans wanted citizens to be ready to participate in society. =Morgan= Civic education in our society is extremely important. Even though we have private, parochial, and public schools, we still all receive somewhat of a civic education. We get our views on civic education from the same sources that we built our government on: Aristotle and classical republicanism, as well as some of the views of our own founding fathers themselves. Our civic education has evolved with the times, it used to strictly be memorization of the documents, and has since then becaame the education of not only our important documents, but education on actually becoming a responsible civillian. These views have helped our country grow because we have installed values into today’s youth.

First and foremost, we have to install the following ideals into our children at a young age. The more we stress a need for them to follow these values, the more they will use them not only as students, but as adults in the real world and when handling real situations. Aristotle found that the governments purpose is to serve the people, and if we don't stress the need to work together as a "people" then we will no longer have government and we won't be serving anything or anyone. The sooner we get children interested in their government and the way it works, the sooner it will become a personal interest to them and they will find it important in their daily lives.

Secondly, a good civic education will teach children how to work with others. If we do not teach everyone to work together, then our country will fall into turmoil. The students in our schools are the ones who will be leading our country someday, and if they do not know how to work together, we will get nowhere. Like the Latin saying “out of many, one”, that is exactly what we must do, come together to form one great nation.

Next, we must teach children tolerance and compromise. Not only tolerance of say, race, but tolerance of the opposite gender, handicapped persons, the elderly and young, as well as those who may just have a differing view. This ties in with the above value of working together. It is impossible to get anything done with one person thinking that their way is best. Also compromise is key. This country did not get where it is today stepping on everyone else’s toes. We tried one way, failed, tried another, failed, and compromised them to make something great. We even did this in forming the structure of our government with classical republicanism and natural rights philosophy.

As you can see, most of our education system is based off of Classical Republicanism and Aristotle because of the influence that they had on our founding fathers.

=Yvette= There are many distinct differences between Classical republicanism and Natural rights. Wither it’s the history on how the theories work or the Ideologies of the theory. They both have influenced the founding fathers to create this great nation that we now call the United States of America.

Classical Republicanism emphasized more of the common good in people. The Roman republic was an example of classical republicanism. The Romans would provide citizens with liberty, but citizens must share characteristics like civic virtue, moral education, and live in small communities. According to Aristotle a Classical Republicanism philosopher, the purpose of government is to promote the common good, so in order to do this people must maintain civic virtue.Civic virtue is the cultivation of habits of personal living that are claimed to be important for the success of the communityThe next time this radical ideal came out in public is during the Renaissance era. A man named Thomas Hobbes added to the idea of a social contract. A social contract is a way to explain the appropriate relationship between individuals and their governments. In regards to the American Revolution, the founding fathers were greatly influenced in the 18th century by Classical Republicanism and as a result several documents were created and in the end the freedom of what will be called United States of America. In the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and the Constitution of 1787 we can see that this philosophy comes out in the form of the Bill of Rights and the other amendments made later on in the future.

Natural Rights are the inalienable rights that are considered to be obvious and universally know by humanity. This political theory that states that the individual enters into a society with certain basic rights and that no government can deny these rights. This Philosophy came to light more and more during the ancient and medieval eras. For example Plato wrote a book that is called the Republic and it was published in 380 B.C. this book described how if people would have their rights life would be much peaceful. This idea was radical to those who read it and heard of it. Decades later in the 18th century John Locke believed that all humans are born good, and that they have god given rights like freedom of worship, protest of government, rights to own property, and among others. Another philosopher later that decade names Jean Jacques Rousseau states that people are good but need to have some kind of contract, so then his idea traces back to Classical Republicanism. These ideas have been evident on the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and also in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nation in 1948.

=Derick=

Our government has been shaped by a lot of articles from the past. The magna Carta, the writ of habeas corpus, and the English bill of rights are just a few of the many works that have affected our way of living today. The Magna Carta was a big turning point in government in its time. It introduced due process, the social contract and no taxation without representation. The Magna Carta also introduced governing by rules, no more making up laws as you go and then getting rid of them a few weeks or months later. The Magna Carta influenced our founders in the fact that we now have no taxation without representation. We see the effects of the Magna Carta in our constitution today in the fourteenth amendment, “States shall not deprive persons of life, liberty or property without due process. ”The Writ of Habeas Corpus was another monumental step in governmental history. It states that an accused person must be told what they were accused of. It also says that in the case of a murder trial, the body must be accounted for. This stopped people from being put in jail for no reason what so ever. The Writ of Habeas Corpus goes with classical republicanism, and has helped our founders with the constitution. We see the effects in our Constitution today in Amendments’ five, six and seven. The English bill of rights is one of the most important documents before our declaration of independence in governmental history. It gave the people the right to a trial by jury, no cruel or unusual punishment, the right to petition, and the right to bear arms and government by contract, not by force. The English bill of rights helped with everything from the king doing whatever he wanted to do to not having the government forced on the people. The English bill of rights is very much natural rights philosiphy, and it helped our founders with the majority of our bill of rights. We see this in our Constitution today in Amendments’ one, two, seven and eight. These along with other documents have help shape the way our government is today. Without them, well, who knows where any of us would be…

I hope these changes help alittle...and alot.

=Keegan=

I am going to tell you about the difference in the classical republican and the natural rights philosophy. I will also explain how they need education to prepare for citizenship. I will tie all of this in with the anti- federalist and the federalist papers. Classical republicanism stresses the common good of the community where as natural rights philosophy stresses the common good of the individual. It consists of ideas like consent of the governed, right of revolution, unalienable rights (or rights that cannot be taken away or given up, such as life liberty and property), and creates a social contract. Classical republicanism is modeled after the Roman Republic, where the government provides its citizens with liberty under government and stresses the common good. It stresses what’s best for the society as a whole. Citizens within a republic must share the same characteristics: civic virtue, moral education, and live in small, uniform communities. Classical Republicanism is the theory in which the role of the citizen is to benefit the common good through civicvirtues, or their dedication to government at any cost of their individual interests. The Natural Rights Philosophy does not stress the common good, or the prosperity of the government and society. It stresses the interests and individual rights of the citizen. According to the Natural Rights Philosophy, individuals are free to pursue their own interests, and are protected by the government to do so. Moral education aids in the development of good habits and the manner in which one should reason. Accordingly, the government must maintain a small homogenous community so that the people will maintain similar interests and care for each other's wellbeing as to promote the common good.

=Hailey=

There are many exampels of calssical republicism and natural rights in the federlist papers and the anti federalist papers. In Anti-Federlist paper no 2 the author states that no one man has or any class of men has the right, by the law of nature or by God, to assume or exersice authorty over their fellows. This proves that all men are equal. The same paper also states that government should be established so the force of the entire communitycan be collected. To protect and defend everyone who composed it. The common good therefore id the end of civil government and commom consent, the foundation on which it is established.

In federlist paper 10 it states that no man can not judge his own case becuase more than likley his bias would influnce his judgement would would corrupt his integrity. This is looking out for the common good because the men are not just looking out for them selves but also for others when they are not allow to judge their own case. Also in Federlist 10 it states that anything dealing with a large body of citizens no one man will make a decison but that many people will make that decison.