post midterm

Question 1

What are the benefits and drawbacks of talking about rights instead of goods?

Answer 1

Benefits- give an absolute claim
Drawbacks- rights obscure duties

Question 2

What are the benefits and drawbacks of using courts instead of legislature

Answer 2

Drawbacks: frustrate compromise through black and white decisions
Benefits- enforce rights

Question 3

Casey Martin: what are arguments for pga and what are arguments for casey

Answer 3

Casey: already proved himself, disability not his fault
pga: carts destroy art/nature, unfair to other players, allowed to make their own rules

Question 4

why should the Supreme Court not have heard the case of casey martin

Answer 4

should not be taken to federal level, pga private organization

Question 5

How could Casey have gotten the cart without supreme court stepping in?

Answer 5

offered that all players get the cart for that season

Question 6

What are some limitations of the “equality/equity/justice” diagram?

Answer 6

First image all have equality of opportunity, equity is being portrayed as equality of outcome

Question 7

What is the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome?

Answer 7

Equality of outcome looks to ensure people who are disadvantaged are making gains. (everyone seeing the soccer game) Equality of opportunity looks to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities to make those gains. (everyone being at the game)

Question 8

Why is it impossible to have perfect equality of opportunity and perfect equality of outcome at the same time?

Answer 8

They contradict: under equality of outcome you would provide people with what they need to have to end up in the same situation, equality of opportunity you would make sure they would have the ability to get there

Question 9

How does kendi define racism? What are the problems of defining racism in this way?

Answer 9

Racially different outcomes is racism. Not possible to eliminate racially different outcomes, not technically racism

Question 10

What are the arguments for and against equal representation of states in the senate?

Answer 10

For: proportional rep in the house
Against: small states should have less representation than large states

Question 11

Why does Madison (in federalist 10) advocate for large political units?

Answer 11

Majority faction/ tyranny of the majority would arise so to combat you need to have pluralism and diversity so no one party/interest has a majority

Question 12

What is pluralism?

Answer 12

many interest groups - or a group of people organized formally with a shared social characteristic or ideology - ideally share power in society

Question 13

Why does Madison think that pluralism will help to combat tyranny of the majority?

Answer 13

No one interest will have a majority consistently

Question 14

Why does Brutus advocate for small political units?

Answer 14

No examples of a large and free republic in history

Question 15

Why does Brutus think that unified (non-diverse) states will help to preserve liberty?

Answer 15

Diverse is ungovernable and cannot have true republic- unified can

Question 16

Why are modcons opposed to natural aristocracy?

Answer 16

Natural aristocracy is a political elite based on merit rather than genealogy, opposed because they disagreed with people from any background having political power, wanted only the ideal to have power

Question 17

Why do modcons favor using the state legislatures to select senators?

Answer 17

Better senators will be chosen this way, allows states to have influence over the national government

Question 18

Why do modcons oppose re-eligibility?

Answer 18

President should not only do his duty on the promise of keeping his job

Question 19

What is the north and souths position on taxation and representation of slaves and why?

Answer 19

North: yes taxation and no representation because the north does not have slaves/as many slaves so if slaves are accounted for in taxation the north pays less in taxes and if they are not accounted for in representation the north has more representatives than they would if they were counted
South: no taxation and yes representation because the south has more slaves than the north so if slaves are accounted for in taxation the south will pay more in taxes than if they are not and if they are accounted for in representation the south gets more representatives in the house than they would if they were not

Question 20

How do ford and weiner disagree about the legitimacy of the constitution?

Answer 20

Ford believes the constitution was flawed, weiner doesn’t. ford says it is flawed because the senate is not representative, congress is too weak, and majority backed policies are not enacted. Weiner says that congress needs to use its power, constitution forces slow deliberation, and politics allows voter input