Summit Prep And My Family Analysis

In the 18th century, Baron de Montesquieu, a French philosopher, wrote about government in his book, On the Spirit of Laws, that “Power should be a check to power,” meaning that the government should set up power so that it will not be corrupt by separating the government so that each part of it can “block” an action the others can take. All the way across the Atlantic Ocean, five Native American tribes were already making a “checked” government, the Iroquois Confederacy, unknowingly putting Montesquieu’s ideas into practice.

The Iroquois Confederacy believed that separating the government is beneficial to their rule and way of life. They (five different tribes) then banded together in a huge group for protection to carry out that idea. The …show more content…
For Summit, it is the principal. For my family, it is my parents. The principal can control school policy and my parents decide what I can or cannot do. But most of it isn’t so bad. My parents do take my opinions into account, and the principal and my family do what is best for the students and teachers/me. In Summit, the teachers have authority over the students. They teach and can punish students (or perform restorative justice), which the students have no choice but to obey. However, the Student Senate, although guided and supervised by teachers, is entirely student run and has influenced over the upper echelons of Summit. In my family, I have free time to do (almost) whatever I want, but there are times when I have to exercise/take a walk/go on a trip/do homework where I have to obey. Lastly, in the school there are mentor groups. The mentor has power like the teachers, but the mentees (students) have some autonomy. So the non-senate students have little power, while the teachers and principal have most of it, but they are not overbearing. My parents also have the most power, but my opinion is valued and can influence them to do or not do certain