Question and answer 1

List and define Baudrillard’s 3 futures of US Power.

Explain why Baudrillard’s Reagan could not understand US poverty.

What does Baudrillard say about equality in America?

For Winthrop, list the 3 reasons that “God” has for the “diversity” of mankind (some “highe” others in “subjeccion,” some rich some “poore”)?

What is the point of Winthrop’s City on the Hill idea?

Why does Williams think that the swords and guns of the civil authority cannot be used to successfully hold off heresy and blasphemy?

What is the difference between consent to a covenant and consent to a social contract?

Why does Abigail Adams state that it is useful to include the concerns of women in the new legal code?

In Federalist 51, “Ambition must be made to counter ambition” means to __________?

According to Anti-federalist 3, representation ought to be set up according to ________? Give one example.

In the Origins of Free Peoples, what do indictment and synechdoche each accomplish?

The separation of church and state idea: How would Masons justify it in their own words?

Show the inconsistency of Calhoun’s opinion that slavery is a positive good.

Explain how Lincoln can claim that the union is perpetual.

section 2
1. Give an example of how Plato’s rulership by experts is refused in the year 2020.
2. Apply Aristotle’s ‘golden mean’ theory so as to redirect the conflict of the rich and the poor in America.
3. Give an example of how the same citizen might be viewed as wrong in one city but correct in the other of St. Augustine’s two cities theory.
4. How would Machiavelli defend his political theory against St. Augustine; what example would M. present as proof to the Saint?
5. What would Hobbes say about the super-max prison conditions in Florence, Colorado? Approve or disapprove?
6. Determine and explain why Locke would approve of Brazilian settlers moving into the Amazon rainforest.
7. If a California citizen initiates a law and voters pass it, would Rousseau agree or disagree and why?
8. Describe an example of being both free and equal according to Rousseau.
9. Between Bakunin, Prudhon, and Kropotkin, which anarchist would more stand against violence to remove state officials?
10. What would Marx say about America’s welfare system?
11. Explain why Marx rejects the rural peasants for a role in the communist revolution.
12. Should intellectuals, writers, or poets show the way to peace in the revolt against colonialists, according to Fanon? Why or why mot?