UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA

Department of Political Science

POLS 3310                                                                Midterm Examination

“American Political Theory”                                  September 28‑October 5, 2018

Fall Semester 2018

        ¨       You may use your textbooks, your class notes, and any other resource that you obtain on your own.  Presumably, your most productive source will be the textbook.  It is essential that you reference and cite the textbook extensively in preparing this examination.

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        ¨       Consultation with or assistance from any other individual, including any classmate, is prohibited as a form of cheating.  Plagiarism is similarly prohibited.

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¨       Compose your paper using APA style, modified in accordance with my specifications.  Refer to the Web page at this URL address:

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http://faculty.UNG.edu/bfriedman/Courses/APAmod.html

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Remember, there is a link on that Web page to a sample paper in APA style.  If you don’t follow this instruction, you may lose as many as 20 points!  Be sure to write your examination in the standard form of an essay.  Do not submit an outline.  Use complete sentences, appropriate paragraph structure, etc.

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¨       For purposes of this assignment, you are welcome to use in-text citations referencing the name of an author of an essay in our text, like this:  “(Webster, 1832, p. 446)”.  Here is a good bibliography entry for the reader:

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                    Kramnick, Isaac, and Lowi, Theodore J., eds.  (2009).  American Political Thought:  A Norton Anthology.  New York:  W. W. Norton & Co.

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        ¨       This examination probably requires at least 10 pages of double-spaced text.

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        ¨       Your examination is due on Friday, October 5, when we gather for class at our classroom.  Please submit two hard copies.  Do not put the copies in binders, manila folders, or report covers; just staple.  Late papers are unacceptable.

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While you have been studying political science at the University of North Georgia, your parent has been boasting to the members of your family’s house of worship about how you are becoming an expert about politics and government.  As you are about to graduate, the spiritual leader of your house of worship writes a letter to you.  He invites you to come to the prayer service this coming Sabbath and receive a $2000 award for tuition at graduate school, law school, or any other educational establishment or to defray your relocation costs to the place of your first professional job.  In return for this award, the spiritual leader asks you to deliver a speech in place of the customary weekly sermon.  The topic of the speech is “Is the United States’ Political and Governmental System Inevitably Founded on the Will of G·d?”

            You should do the following:

         n  Write the speech that you will deliver at the house of worship.

n  Base your speech on the readings in our textbook.  Do not simply recite what you think that the members of the house of worship want to hear.  Your speech should be academic/scholarly and unbiased (i.e., tell all sides of the story as reflected in our readings).  If the members are traumatized by what you say, the spiritual leader can try to sort things out later.

n  You should directly quote from the readings in the textbook.  Probably about half of your speech should consist of direct quotations.  Tell the audience whom you are quoting.  Of course, in your paper, you must indicate the direct quotations with quotation marks and citations‑‑e.g., “(Madison, 1789, p. 280)”.

9/28/2018