Lesson 8: Principle 6 - All Men Are Created Equal 
Reading Assignment: 

The 5000 Year Leap: 6th Principle: All Men Are Created Equal (pages 103-12) 

Lesson objectives: 

As a result of this lesson, the student should be able to discuss the following questions/topics: 

1. In what three ways are all people equal? (pages 103-4) 

2. What does it mean to have equal rights? (lOS) 

3. Ideally. how should minorities cross the "culture gap" and become accepted into society? (105- 
8) 

4. Evaluate the push for "civil rights" over the past three decades. Would the founders have 
suggested a better way? (108-11) 

5. Describe the constitutional amendments that were passed to ensure equal rights. Was there a 
better way to accomplish this? (111-12) 

Lesson 9: Principle 7 - Equal rights, Not Equal Things 
Reading Assignment: 

The 5000 Year Leap: 7th Principle: Equal Rights. Not Equal Things (pages 115-21) 

Lesson objectives: 

As a result of this lesson. the student should be able to discuss the following questions/topics: 

1. What powers can be legitimately assigned to government? (Pages 115-16) 

2. What are the natural results of a government's assuming the authority to take from the "haves" 
and gi ve to the "ha ve nots"? (] 16-17) 

3. Protecting equal rights for all provides for what great economic freedoms? (117-18) 

4. America excelled all other nations in at least four ways because it protected equal rights 
instead of trying to provide equal things. Name these four achievements. Give proof that the 
founders made "leveling" unconstitutional. (119) 

5. Where did Benjamin Franklin gain experience that helped him I~ how to effectively care for 
the poor? What kind of compassion did he consider counterproductive? (119-20) 

6. State the five principles that summarize the founders' views on how to help the truly poor by 
means of "calculated" compassion. (120-21)