HIGH SCHOOL AMERICAN GOVERNMENT & ECONOMICS
The class studies the foundational roots of American government from the ideas developed in the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Rights of Man. The colonial charters and constitutions reveal American government is a result of a number of factors each of which emphasized the Biblical idea of man and government and moved men to greater religious and civil liberty. An extensive study of the US Constitution is included. Our government study includes state government as well as national government. One semester is devoted to the study of socialism and capitalism and the economic principles of free enterprise. Free enterprise is a fruit or result of a biblical worldview.
The class studies the foundational roots of American government from the ideas developed in the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Rights of Man. The colonial charters and constitutions reveal American government is a result of a number of factors each of which emphasized the Biblical idea of man and government and moved men to greater religious and civil liberty. An extensive study of the US Constitution is included. Our government study includes state government as well as national government. One semester is devoted to the study of socialism and capitalism and the economic principles of free enterprise. Free enterprise is a fruit or result of a biblical worldview.
The class studies the foundational roots of American government from the ideas developed in the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Rights of Man. The colonial charters and constitutions reveal American government is a result of a number of factors each of which emphasized the Biblical idea of man and government and moved men to greater religious and civil liberty. An extensive study of the US Constitution is included. Our government study includes state government as well as national government. One semester is devoted to the study of socialism and capitalism and the economic principles of free enterprise. Free enterprise is a fruit or result of a biblical worldview.
Required Course Materials :
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 by Christopher Collier and James Collier
The Federalist Papers various essays) by Jay, Madison, and Hamilton
Field Trip to the state Capitol, visits with Committees at work, Representatives
Stewarding the Earth: A Biblical View of Economics by Stephen McDowell
Textbook:
The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America: Christian Self-Government by Verna M. Hall
Teacher’s Notes on American Government and Economics
The Key to the Constitution of the United States, Patriotic Education Incorporated by Henry Watson
Economics by Carper, Bradley & Payne, BJU Press