STANDARDS TO ACHIEVE:
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, in terms of:
1. the similarities and differences in the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law; reason and faith; duties of the individual.
2. the development of the Western political ideas of the rule of law and illegitimacy of tyranny, drawing from selections from Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Politics.
3. the influence of the U.S. Constitution on political systems in the contemporary world

A Central Question: Why has it been so hard to establish and maintain lasting democratic governments?