The document discusses the left-right political spectrum. It explains that the spectrum originated during the French Revolution when revolutionary republicans sat on the left side of the assembly and pro-monarchist conservatives sat on the right. The left is generally considered more open to change while the right prefers to maintain the status quo. The spectrum is a continuum rather than distinct categories, and different political opinions can fall at various points along the line.

2. Ideologies

3. REACTIONARY RADICAL LIBERAL MODERATE CONSERVATIVE Arrange these political ideologies from left to right… Left Right Center

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5. REACTIONARY RADICAL LIBERAL MODERATE CONSERVATIVE Left Right Center The Basic Political Spectrum

6. Characteristics

8. Modern French National Assembly

9. “… the pro-monarchist conservatives sat on the right, and the revolutionary republicans sat on the left of a semi-circular assembly.” (Tansey, 2004)

10. Revolutionary Republicans Pro-monarchist Conservatives French National Assembly (1789)

11. Early Political Spectrum Revolutionary Republicans Pro-monarchist Conservatives LEFT WING RIGHT WING

12. “… the pro-monarchist conservatives sat on the right, and the revolutionary republicans sat on the left of a semi-circular assembly.” (Tansey, 2004)

14. Change Change

16. SPECTRUM Spectrum is “a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order. -Meriam-Webster Online

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19. Left-wing Right-wing Change Centrists In Political Science…

20. “ Spectrum” also refers to… “ any of various continua that resemble a color spectrum in consisting of an ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic (as frequency or energy).” -Meriam-Webster Online

21. “ The labels used on the spectrum are not pure categories , but they make up a continuum, or value line, and citizens and politicians fall somewhere on that line depending on what they believe.” -cyberlearning-world.com

24. Something to think about…

25. Among the five political labels, where should we associate communism and capitalism? Why do you think is the reason why the political conservatives during the French Revolution chose to seat on the right-hand side of the Speaker?

26. Do you want to know where you fit on a political spectrum? Check out these sites: www.politicalcompass.org http://www.theadvocates.org/