First Draft of social contract

Instructions:

Please bring a hard copy to class. You should each be responsible for your particular section. If you can't attend, try to arrange for another member of your group to bring in a hard copy. Make sure your group number is displayed prominently for easy sorting.

There is no need for "connecting tissue" at this point (by this I mean, introductions, conclusions, making it one seamless document with a table of contents and that sort of thing). You can each turn in your own section.

Here is where I think your essay should be by Monday. You should take your original statement, and revise it in the following ways. First, you should try to incorporate as much of your group's feedback and suggestions as possible. Second, you should make an initial effort to "square" your section with the sections of the rest of your group. Third, you should make an explicit effort to acknowledge how theorists from class have influenced your position (if they have). Fourth, you should think about how to justify or "sell" your positions. Remember, you've got to convince 5000 people (or as many as possible; we don't have a majority rule or unanimity rule yet) that your position is correct. The key to this is also the difficulty to you--you've got to come up with reasons that very different people who might disagree with your politics would agree with your social contract.

This is a first swipe at each of these features. If you do them all really well, you won't need to do much but come up with a conclusion and merge the documents for the final draft. I don't expect any group to have done all of this thoroughly yet, but if you do, congrats!