Due: by Midnight, Tuesday, December 15, the last Day of Finals
One Part, Plus a chance for extra credit.
Considering the documents we've read this semester, especially documents like
- Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King,
- A Vindication of the Rights of Women, by Mary Wollstonecraft
- The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
- On the Constitution and the Union by William Lloyd Garrison
- Aristotle on Government by the Middle Class
- On Toleration, by John Locke
- and A Model of Christian Charity, by John Winthrop
When a civil law comes in conflict with your conscience and your reason, which should you obey, and why? Is there a way to reconcile both so you can be both a good citizen and a good person?
Length: About 5 pp. should do it. If you include illustrations, your paper should be a bit longer.
You may support your assertions with anything you find on the web pages I've created for the course. Please don't use other outside sources, however.
I do not need a "Work's Cited" page. Footnotes can be informal, including the name of the source and if necessary, the URL of the place you located it.
Suppose you could save ONLY FIVE of the documents we've used this semester, which five would you choose, and why?
