In conjunction with Module/Week 7 of this course, you will be required to draft a research paper. The paper
must be 7–10 pages (not including the title page and bibliography), in current APA format, with default margins,
and in 12-pt Times New Roman font. The paper must include citations to adequate sources supporting and/or
illustrating your positions. The paper must include a title page and bibliography, also in current APA format.
This paper will be on the topic previously approved by your instructor. This is an opportunity for you to apply
political theory, not merely report on what you have read. As such, you will be required to develop, explain, and
offer defenses for anticipated challenges to the thesis of your paper. Papers that merely report on a political
thinker, political idea, etc., rather than developing, explaining, and defending a well-crafted thesis will have
failed to comply with these instructions.
In your Final Research Paper, you must use at least three of the political thinkers from the course: one must
come from the Classical Body Politic (Plato, Aristotle, or Cicero); one must come from one of the Christian
Bodies Politic (Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, or Calvin); and one must come from the one of the Modern Bodies
Politics or Diseased Bodies Politic (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Bentham, Mill, Dewey, or
Rawls).
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