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"Essential" State Standards:
10.1 Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and
Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western
political thought.
- Analyze the similarities and differences in Judeo-Christian and
Greco-Roman views of law, reason and faith, and duties of the individual.
- Trace the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law
and illegitimacy of tyranny, using selections from Plato's Republic
and Aristotle's Politics.
10.2 Students compare and contrast the
Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French
Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political
expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
- Compare the major ideas of philosophers and
their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United
States, France, and Latin America (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis
Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison).
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