Political Science Study Guide

SECTION I. True/False. In your Blue Book (or a clean answer-sheet), write only either “True”

or “False” behind each of these twenty numbers. Maximum of points awarded: 20.

01. Arthur Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon: A Novel.

02. Hannah Arendt defined panopticism as commonsense.

03. Muhammad Ali applied for conscientious objector status.

04. Michel Foucault defined panopticism as form of discipline.

05. Adolf Eichmann was sentenced and executed by Israel.

06. Jury powers were limited by Sparf and Hansen v. United States.

07. The State of Oregon allows non-unanimous jury verdicts.

08. Less than one of every thousand U.S. criminal cases are tried by a jury.

09. Karl Marx and Carl Schmitt say that the law is sovereign.

10. Carl Schmitt says the sovereign decides on the exception.

11. Angela Davis supports corporate privatization of prisons.

12. The U.S. Postal Service enjoys executive immunity.

13. Boilerplate refers to vanishing consumer rights.

14. Unconscionable contracts are legally binding.

15. Rubashov never capitulates.

16. The ultimate check on the U.S. Government is found in Article Five.

17. The U.S. Government has “the power to collect taxes” under the Fifth Amendment.

18. Plato’s The Republic is about definitions of courage.

19. Antonin Scalia is one of the judges on Columbia’s Supreme Court.

20. The State Secrets Privilege was first guaranteed by a law case in 1999.

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SECTION II. Select only four mini-essay discussion questions from these ten. Upon so having

chosen your topics, write one mini-essay on each of the four. Each mini-essay is to have a clear and concise conclusion, an introduction, and a title. Maximum of points awarded: 80 (20 each).

1. Thrasymachus says that justice is nothing other than “the advantage of the stronger.” But Thrasymachus blushes after Socrates points out that justice then also derives from virtue and wisdom, similar to how injustice derives from...