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Here is our second notes for today.
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We'll be talking about the Founding Fathers.
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Um, here's Benjamin Franklin.
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We're gonna look at the Founding Fathers because we want
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to know a little bit about our background on our
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basic building blocks for the United States.
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Um and, ah, lot of times we hear that's not
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something the Founding Fathers would have wanted.
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Well, maybe, but maybe not a lot of the Founding
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Fathers had very different views from each other.
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If you've seen Hamilton, the musical, you have probably seen
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the scene where Hamilton and Jefferson have this massive rap
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debate. That's pretty good.
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Way to kind of think about this.
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Ah, lot of these guys are gonna have very opposite
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ideas. Benjamin Franklin is the first one we're going to
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talk about his highest political offices.
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Minister to France.
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His accomplishments.
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He signs a peace treaty with England.
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He helps write the Declaration of Independence, and he's the
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oldest delegate, which means he was sent to help write
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the Constitution.
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Um, he runs a publishing company, his politics, and this
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is a big deal.
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I want to really highlight how different each of these
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guys are and what they believe he was suspicious of
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strong government and really, really did not think that a
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president or king was an appropriate idea.
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In fact, when they're writing the Constitution, he is adamantly
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against a president.
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That's why he never becomes president himself.
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He doesn't think it's a good idea.
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His body is Thomas Jefferson.
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His quote.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a
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little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Thomas Jefferson, his highest political office, was president.
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He wrote the Declaration of Independence and served as minister
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to France.
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His politics.
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You don't have to know his party.
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What I do want you to know is that he's
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really in favor of the common people.
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He's really big on this idea of agriculture.
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He's going to double the land size of the U.
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S. When he buys Louisiana purchase, he does not believe
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in strong central government necessarily either.
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He's really big into individual rights.
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His buddies Air James Madison and John Adams, and he
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says a little rebellion now and then is a good
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thing. John Adams, his highest political offices president.
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He is not known for being a good president, though
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he makes a lot of really poor choices.
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However, before that he's going to help draft the Declaration
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of Independence and negotiate the peace agreement with Great Britain.
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He's a federalist.
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I do want you to write that word down.
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Federalist. Which means he favors a strong central government.
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The reason that he is not remembered very well because
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he signs the Alien and Sedition Act, which makes it
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illegal to criticize the government, which obviously we no longer
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have today studies Thomas Jefferson.
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His quote Let the human mind loose.
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It must be loosed.
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It will be loose superstition and despotism cannot define it
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or confine it.
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George Washington, His highest political office.
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He is the very first president the United States.
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He led the colonial forces in the Revolutionary War.
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Yeah, he wins.
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Dug her college, his politics.
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He is a federalist, which again means he favorite strong
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government. He also has a soft spot for Aristocats aristocrats,
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which means he really likes the idea of royalty.
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He kind of thinks it makes sense.
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It kind of things that maybe the United States should
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have some too.
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Maybe he should be considered one of them.
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His buddies Alexander Hamilton.
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He says Government is not reason.
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It is not eloquence.
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It is a force like fire.
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It's dangerous.
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Servant and a fearful master never for a moment should
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be left to a responsible action.
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Alexander Hamilton, highest political office Treasury secretary.
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He authored the Federalist Papers, and he is gonna be
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the one that really stresses that the articles of confederation
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aren't working, and we need to try again.
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His politics.
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He believes in aristocracy, just like George Washington.
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He's the founder of the Federalist Party, which means that
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he believes in a really strong central government.
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His buddy is George Washington.
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Quote the sacred rights of mankind, or not to be
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rummaged for among dusty old parchments or musty records.
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They are written by the hand of divinity itself and
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can never be erased or obscured by moral power.
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I don't think your paper actually asked James Madison, but
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here's James Madison.
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I included him last year, is the fourth president of
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the United States.
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He is known as the Father of the Constitution, more
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of a political philosopher than anything.
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He's a believer in peace and tries to avoid a
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war with France.
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He, his buddies, Air George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
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His quote.
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People in nations are four GED in the fires of
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adversity. Now, these air all your founding fathers, you had
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to know there are three questions at the bottom that
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I would like you to answer.
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The first question is so Africa, hold on.
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Why are they considered founding?
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Second question.
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Did the founding fathers always agree?
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And finally, what important documents did these men contribute to?