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What are the benefits and drawbacks of talking about rights instead of goods?
Benefits- give an absolute claim Drawbacks- rights obscure duties
What are the benefits and drawbacks of using courts instead of legislature
Drawbacks: frustrate compromise through black and white decisions Benefits- enforce rights
Casey Martin: what are arguments for pga and what are arguments for casey
Casey: already proved himself, disability not his fault pga: carts destroy art/nature, unfair to other players, allowed to make their own rules
why should the Supreme Court not have heard the case of casey martin
should not be taken to federal level, pga private organization
How could Casey have gotten the cart without supreme court stepping in?
offered that all players get the cart for that season
What are some limitations of the “equality/equity/justice” diagram?
First image all have equality of opportunity, equity is being portrayed as equality of outcome
What is the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome?
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)
Why is it impossible to have perfect equality of opportunity and perfect equality of outcome at the same time?
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
How does kendi define racism? What are the problems of defining racism in this way?
Racially different outcomes is racism. Not possible to eliminate racially different outcomes, not technically racism
What are the arguments for and against equal representation of states in the senate?
For: proportional rep in the house Against: small states should have less representation than large states
Why does Madison (in federalist 10) advocate for large political units?
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
What is pluralism?
many interest groups - or a group of people organized formally with a shared social characteristic or ideology - ideally share power in society
Why does Madison think that pluralism will help to combat tyranny of the majority?
No one interest will have a majority consistently
Why does Brutus advocate for small political units?
No examples of a large and free republic in history
Why does Brutus think that unified (non-diverse) states will help to preserve liberty?
Diverse is ungovernable and cannot have true republic- unified can
Why are modcons opposed to natural aristocracy?
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
Why do modcons favor using the state legislatures to select senators?
Better senators will be chosen this way, allows states to have influence over the national government
Why do modcons oppose re-eligibility?
President should not only do his duty on the promise of keeping his job
What is the north and souths position on taxation and representation of slaves and why?
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
How do ford and weiner disagree about the legitimacy of the constitution?
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