Essays:

Essay 1:
Reasons for staying:
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Tacit consent
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Law is above everything
Natural/higher law

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Reputation would become inconsistent
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Believes in justice?
Political obligation
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Natural law
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Self-motivated
Counsel
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Machiavelli - survival!
Put on a good show and talk your way out of it

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GI - take on the burden - you have to stay
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Your own opinion
Essay 2:
Justice vs.:
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Liberty
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Sovereignty
Usually human law while justice is higher

Plato says justice is more important than everything

Machiavelli - security and sovereignty are most important
Dostoevsky agrees with Machiavelli
Mill Essay 3:
Tacit consent
Plato - not leaving and reaping benefits
Machiavelli - consent is not necessary
GI - submission, assumed consent
Essay 4:
Machiavelli would probably win
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Would use whatever means necessary to gain leadership
Socrates
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Believes in justice - would try to be peaceful
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Would make the others angry
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Might be advisor to Machiavelli
GI
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Theories rely on existing society
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Machiavelli wouldn't give in to religion
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Might ally with Machiavelli
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Doesn't do well with shock/change
Essay 5:
Freedom of speech is first, most important liberty
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Current truth is not necessarily the most true
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Could reveal some truth by discussion
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Constant discussion prevents blind tradition without questioning
Federalist
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In favor
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Adversity
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Factions


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Avoiding majority tyranny
Glendon
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Agrees (just don't call it a right)
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Ante vs. Trump
6:
Pluralism - many factions - US government - fluctuation of majority, ideas change,
etc., compromises
How good of a match
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Glendon
Using rights has closed out the minorities

Multiple factions has failed

OR, so much emphasis on rights that minorities have had a chance

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Mill
Freedom of speech is being used

Are people hearing?

7:
Communitarian
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Mill
Public rights

No discussion of private rights

Support Glendon

For positive liberty, with associated duties

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Federalists
Would say that Glendon is right in recognizing attachments, but that

she is wrong about it being bad

Effects on pluralism - could be good (many people speaking for their

rights creates more factions) or bad (maybe less people speaking)

8:
Current Events
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Edward Snowden
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Patriot Act
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ISIS - voicing opinion
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MI Prop 2015-1
Mill
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Liberty is important - betterment of society
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Misuse of liberty - private
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Not significantly benefiting society
Glendon
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Too individualistic
Anti-Federalists
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Two-party = bad
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Government intervening too much
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Government + business=bad
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Government has gotten too big
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People have given up hope
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Not enough citizen participation
"Pool of sadness" drawing
9:
Plato - each person has their place (and he is on top)
Mill - people are rational, can see consequences of their actions and act accordingly;
people should therefore be allowed to make their own decisions

Machiavelli - implies everyone is dumber than prince because otherwise they would
be in power; (maybe) questions existence of human nature - prince is able to flip
around spectrum; believes humans are innately self-centered
Federalists - people rational but are prone to passions