POL 3330: TAKE-HOME EXAM TWO

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Instructions:

Responses must be typed and double-spaced with a one-inch margin and a font size of 10 or 12.

Papers must be stapled.

Please, no folders or binders.

EXAMS ARE DUE THE BEGINNING OF CLASS (9:00am SHARP!) ON WEDNESDAY THE 30TH OF MARCH.

A hard copy is due in class and an electronic copy must be uploaded to turnitin.com using the course code 2549020 and the password brainhurts.

If you are late to class turning in your exam, there will be a one point deduction per minute that you are late. (This still applies if you send a friend with your exam). E-mail submissions are acceptable, but time restraints still apply.

If you use outside sources, they must be properly cited. (Please review my plagiarism policy: here.)

IF YOU FAIL TO ATTEND CLASS/FAIL TO E-MAIL IT TO ME IN TIME, YOUR EXAM WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

SECTION ONE: analyze each of the following quotes, taking half a page to a page to explain what the quote means and

How they fit into the theories of the given author. (Each response should be roughly one paragraph in length) (40% of your score)

1. ''The remedy, then, is not deriv'd from nature, but from artifice...'' (Hume, ''Of the origin of justice and property'').

2. ''The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position'' (Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 353).

3. ''Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilisation are not conveniently competent...'' (Thomas Paine, Of Society and Civilisation).

4. "In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men for their mutual security, and so he becomes dangerous to mankind” (Locke, Two Treatises if Government, 197).

SECTION TWO: answer the following in an essay of three to five pages (60% of your score)

5. Compare and contrast Hobbes and Rousseau on the following issues: the nature of man, the state of nature, and the form and reasons for government.