No plagarism

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).

Closely read the grading rubric for the assignment. Scriptural excerpts with citations are required in this assignment. Note that at least 7 scholarly sources (peer-reviewed academic journal articles or books published by university presses), 1 of which must be the course text, are required.

This is the book and please make sure you include it:

Ryan, A. (2012). On politics: a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present (1st ed.). New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

https://libertyonline.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780…