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Guidelines Formatting Guidelines Word Count: Answer all of the questions posed. Each answer should be 250-300 words. This means that the total word count should be 750-900 words. The word count should include footnotes, but should not include the title page. The text should be Times New Roman 12 point font, double space, with 1 inch margins. Referencing: Each answer should include references. References should be formatted according to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, also known as the McGill Guide. Direct quotes are acceptable, but endeavour to limit quotes to short and impactful fragments. Supplementary sources are encouraged, but not mandatory. A bibliography is not necessary, but please note that footnotes should be complete. A title page is necessary, and should include identifying information (at least your Banner ID). Submission: Guidelines Deadline: This assignment is due September 26, 11:59pm. Electronic Submission: Submit electronically twice via the two Blackboard assignment portal located in this folder. The first assignment portal will be downloaded for evaluation. The second assignment portal grants you access to Turn It In, which enables you to review your originality report. Evaluation Criteria Grades will be posted on Blackboard. Under My Grades, you will have access to a rubric in Word Doc format. The rubric will break down your grade, and will provide feedback. The rubric template is available below. Please review the rubric ahead of submission so you are aware of evaluation criteria. Questions Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. Using this reading and what you learned from lecture, answer the following questions: 1) Explain how King differentiates between just and unjust laws. 2) Why is King disappointed with the “white moderate”? Explain the context for his position. 3) Do you agree with King: do citizens have a conditional duty to disobey unjust laws? Why or why not? Here is an example of how the questions need to be answered : Example What is happening, according to Aquinas, when human and natural law diverge? According to Aquinas, human law is invented by human beings in an effort to reflect God’s Eternal Law. We as human beings cannot know the entirety of Eternal Law because we are finite. God makes the law evident to us through divine revelation and in the natural world.[1] Specifically, in the second respect, “God imprints the principles of proper action.”[2] This means that we can know natural law when we look to our moral instincts, and arrive at moral decisions through rational thought, because those things were given to us by God. In other words, God gave us the natural capacities to know objective moral principles. When human and natural law diverge, it is because we failed to interpret natural law correctly. In Aquinas’s words: “If human law at any point deflects from the law of nature it is no longer a law but a perversion of law.”[3] This means that a law that is not rooted in a moral principle is not the law God intended us to follow. For example, Aquinas identifies a number of moral principles, including the preservation of life. A legal system that allows for murder is a perversion of natural law because it cannot lead to the preservation of life. As a consequence of this divergence, the law not based on moral principle disrupts the harmony of human community. This is because, for Aquinas, “law is the ordinance of reason for the common good of a community.”[4] Our moral instincts ensure we treat one another well. But human-constructed laws that fail to reflect natural law upset our relationships to one another and jeopardize the stability of our communities.