POL 3330: TAKE-HOME EXAM THREE
Instructions:
All exams must be turned in by 9am sharp on Monday, April 27, 2009. “Turned it” means a copy uploaded to Turnitin.com and a hard copy handed in to me.
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). Turnitin submissions are acceptable, but time restraints still apply.
The turnitin.com information is as follows: course code 2549020 and the password brainhurts.
Exams should be 10 or 12 point font, double-spaced and stapled (please, no binders or folders).
If you use outside sources, they must be properly cited. (Please review my plagiarism policy: here.)
Feel free to direct formatting/clarification questions to me via e-mail. I will not respond to inquiries directly related to the exam questions, however.
IF YOU FAIL TO ATTEND CLASS/FAIL TO UPLOAD IT ON 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 it fits into the theories of the given author. (40% of your score)
1. ''Now that the whole jurisdiction of the magistrate reaches only to these civil concernments, and that all civil power, right and dominion, is bounded and confined to the only care of promoting these things; and that it neither can nor ought in any manner to be extended to the salvation of souls, these following considerations seem unto me abundantly to demonstrate'' (Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration).
2. ''Of these four sanctions the physical is altogether, we may observe, the ground-work of the political and the moral: so is it also of the religious, in as far as the latter bears relation to the present life,'' (Bentham, p. 29).
3. ''The bourgeoisie has played a most revolutionary role in history'' (Marx and Engels in Ebenstein, 304).
4. ''It is a piece of idle sentimentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake'' (Mill, On Liberty in Ebenstein, 265).
SECTION TWO: answer the following in an essay of three to five pages (60% of your score)
5. Place Smith, Marx and Engels, Burke, and Hitler on the spectrum of political attitudes discussed in the Baradat handout, providing specific evidence and explanation for each author.