1. INTRO TO CIVICS Values and Institutions

2. WHAT ARE “VALUES”?

3. DEFINITION OF “VALUES” broad ideas about what is good or desirable – shared by people in a society

4. WHERE DO THESE VALUES COME FROM?

5. PRINCIPLES …or our beliefs

6. VALUES ARE IMPORTANT… Because they influence the way we act.

7. In other words… Principles affect our Values Values affect our daily decisions Daily Decisions dictates what type of society in which we live Examples?

8. WHAT ARE SOME BASIC AMERICAN VALUES?

9. Freedom, equality, justice, opportunity, democracy, unity, respect, tolerance

10. HOW DO VALUES BUILD UNITY? Common Civic and Political Heritage Popular Sovereignty The English Language

11. Common Civic and Political Heritage Individual Rights - “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”

12. Popular Sovereignty Fair, free, regular elections, equal justice under the law majority rule

13. English Language Unifying language of education, business, and government Do you agree?

14. ANY OTHER UNIFYING EVENTS? ?

15. AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS sets of ideas that people have about relationships, obligations, roles, and functions

16. AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS Family, Religious, Educational, Social and Governmental Example?

17. “This Country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, of their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it” Abraham Lincoln