Describe confucian teachings on one’s role.

Confucian teachings promoted the following ideas, or “Li” or “proper way”, in society to ensure good interactions between social beings:

Filial Piety- respect for ones parents/elders/ancestors

Humanness- basic respect for human life, family, and society

Ritual Consciousness- moral respect for the proper way of doing things

The Founding Fathers, the framers of the Constitution, wanted to form a government that did not allow one person to have too much authority or control. ... With this in mind the framers wrote the Constitution to provide for a separation of powers, or three separate branches of government.