PLAGIARISM EXERCISES

READ THE SOURCE PARAGRAPH BELOW. THEN READ AND ANALYZE EACH WRITER’S USE OF THAT PARAGRAPH IN THEIR PAPERS. INDICATE WHETHER THE WRITER HAS COMMITTED PLAGIARISM OR NOT. IF THE WRITER HAS COMMITTED PLAGIARISM, INDICATE WHY AND HOW YOU WOULD FIX IT. USE A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER FOR YOUR ANALYSES. DON’T FORGET TO LABEL EACH ANALYSIS CLEARLY AND TO PUT YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER.

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The importance of the Second Treatise of Government printed in this volume is such that without it we should miss some of the familiar features of our own government. It is safe to assert that the much-criticized branch known as the Supreme Court obtained its being as a result of Locke's insistence upon the separation of powers; and that the combination of many powers in the hands of the executive under the New Deal has still to encounter opposition because it is contrary to the principles enunciated therein, the effect of which is not spent, though the relationship may not be consciously traced. Again we see the crystallizing force of Locke's writing. It renders explicit and adapts to the British politics of his day the trend and aim of writers from Languet and Bodin through Hooker and Grotius, to say nothing of the distant ancients Aristotle and the Stoic school of natural law. It sums up magistrally the arguments used through the ages to attack authority ! vested in a single individual, but it does so from the particular point of view engendered by the Revolution of 1688 and is in harmony with the British scene and mental climate of the growing bourgeoisie of that age. Montesquieu and Rousseau, the framers of our own Declaration of Independence, and the statesmen (or should we say merchants and speculators?) who drew up the Constitution have re-echoed its claims for human liberty, for the separation of powers, for the sanctity of private property. In the hands of these it has been the quarry of liberal doctrines; and that it has served the Socialist theory of property based on labor is final proof of its breadth of view.

WRITER 1

It is not hard to see the importance of the Second Treatise of Government to our own democracy. Without it we should miss some of the most familiar features of our own government. It is safe to assert that the much-criticized branch known as the Supreme Court obtained its being as a result of Locke's insistence upon the separation of powers; and that the combination of many powers in the hands of the executive under the New Deal has still to encounter opposition because it is contrary to the principles enunciated therein, the effect of which is not spent, though the relationship may not be consciously traced. The framers of our Declaration of Independence and the statesmen who drew up the Constitution have re-echoed its claims for human liberty, for the separation of powers, for the sanctity of private property. All these are marks of the influence of Locke's Second Treatise on our own way of life.

WRITER 2

The crystallizing force of Locke's writing may be seen in the effect his Second Treatise of Government had in shaping some of the familiar features of our own government. That much-criticized branch known as the Supreme Court and the combination of many powers in the hands of the executive under the New Deal are modern examples. But even the foundations of our state-the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution-have re-echoed its claims for human liberty, for the separation of powers, and for the sanctity of private property. True, the influence of others is also marked in our Constitution-from the trend and aim of writers like Languet and Bodin, Hooker and Grotius, to say nothing of Aristotle and the Stoic school of natural law; but the fundamental influence is Locke's Treatise, the very quarry of liberal doctrines.

WRITER 3

Many fundamental aspects of our own government are

apparent in the Second Treatise of Government. One can safely

say that the oft-censured Supreme Court really owes its existence

to the Lockeian demand that powers in government be kept separate;

equally one can say that the allocation of varied and widespread

authority to the President during the era of the New Deal has

still to encounter opposition because it is contrary to the principles

enunciated therein ... Once more it is possible to note the way in

WRITER 4

The Second Treatise of Government is a veritable quarry of liberal doctrines. In it the crystallizing force of Locke's writing is markedly apparent. The cause of human liberty, the principle of separation of powers, and the inviolability of private property-all three major dogmas of American constitutionalism-owe their presence in our Constitution in large part to the remarkable Treatise which first appeared around 1685 and was destined to spark, within three years, a revolution in the land of the author's birth, and ninety years later, another revolution against that land.