Compare and contrast three readings from your American Government Examinede-reader - Plato (ch. 1), ...

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Compare and contrast three readings from your American Government Examinede-reader - Plato (ch. 1), Thoreau (ch. 1), and King (ch. 4) - in terms of the tradeoff between power and freedom in any political system. How can their arguments be used to illustrate the central dilemmas in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? To what extent can we use their arguments as lessons for how citizens should act in our contemporary democracy? How do these theorists fit into the Maslow or the Kohlberg hierarchies? Use direct references to assigned readings (author and page # citations are adequate). Make sure to relate it to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"