An Enlightenment Game

WHO’S IDEA INFLUENCED THIS ANYWAY?

In your group, select a Presenter and a Saloniere. Rotate these roles to different group members for each round.

I will project and read an excerpt from an important historical document.

In your group, carefully analyze the excerpt and review your Reading Notes to identify which Enlightenment

thinker's idea you think is represented in the excerpt. Make sure you have evidence from you Reading Notes to

support your selection.

STEPS 1-3

When I tell you, send your Saloniere to walk to the Enlightenment thinker whose idea you think is

represented in the excerpt.

If I call on your group's Saloniere, your Presenter must stand and explain why your group believes this

thinker's idea is represented in the excerpt.

At the end of each round, I will reveal the answer and award 1 point to each team that selected the

correct thinker.

The winning team will get 3 points extra credit on their Enlightenment Quiz.

STEPS 4-6

ROUNDS

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created

equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

ROUND 1

The Declaration of Independence

Answer: John Locke

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a

speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district

wherein the crime shall have been committed.

ROUND 2

U.S. Bill of Rights

Answer: Cesare Beccaria

The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen

may thus speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall

be defined by law.

ROUND 3

Dec. of the Rights of Man & Citizen, 1789

Answer: Voltaire

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the

United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of

Representatives... The executive Power shall be vested in a President

of the United States of America... The judicial Power of the United States

shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time

ordain and establish.

ROUND 4

US Constitution

Answer: Baron de Montesquieu

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

exercise thereof.

ROUND 5

U.S. Bill of Rights, 1791

Answer: Voltaire

As all persons are held innocent until they have been declared guilty, if arrest is considered essential, all harshness not necessary for the securing of the person shall be

severely repressed by law.

ROUND 6

Dec. of the Rights of Man, 1789

Answer: Cesare Beccaria

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from

the consent of the governed...whenever any Form of

Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the

People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.

ROUND 7

Dec. of Independence, 1776

Answer: John Locke

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate,

shall, before it becomes a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approves he shall sign it, but

it not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall...proceed to

reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House

shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent...to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved

by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.

ROUND 8

US Constitution

Answer: Baron de Montesquieu