Textual Analysis and Ceremonial Oratory based on Logos, Ethos, and Pathos
can only use the 2 sources listed here which have been uploaded..
The topic of the secondary resource is based on individual liberty regarding religion, and state interests such as regulation of drugs, employment, education, and other similar interests meet.
My First source Artifact is Brief In Support of Motion by NAC
This Protocol describes the requirements for your Integrative Paper #2. The readings posted in the Moodle folder “Integrative Paper #2 Gonzales v. O Centro & Related Artifacts,” might be helpful for you in thinking through a choice of artifact. Our in-class discussions, my comments to your Précis might generate further ideas. This is a work-in-progress. (1) Provide a Précis of your plan for this paper – due Nov. 13 ; (2) Write a First Draft of your paper due Nov. 21; (3) Submit your final version of your Integrative Paper #2, due Dec. 9, after receiving Professor comments. Each of these steps contributes to the quality & therefore the grade on your paper. Deadlines reflect the actual time I will begin the Professor review of your work. * 9am deadlines extend the deadlines contained in the Syllabus, yet conform to our course custom.
The Assignment in parts:
(1) The Précis
On a topic raised by, or related to, those topoi discussed in the Gonzales v. O Centro, prepare your draft/notes for a one page synopsis/plan describing the paper you plan to write. The one page plan due at the deadline should include:
(1) Two specific legal artifacts that you selected to analyze. A legal artifact might include: a single trial, media coverage of a legal proceeding, a significant U.S. Supreme, a single legal definition and an exemplary case, a legal figure and one of their most controversial acts/opinions/dissents, a small set of interesting dissents all written by the same person on the same topic, a novel about a legal issue or trial, etc.. This could be one of the legal artifacts will be posted on Moodle. It may build on or be related to artifacts that are part of these selections or our class discussion, or could be an entirely different legal artifact, or a set of artifacts, that has caught your attention related to topics related to free exercise of religion and possible conflicts with the government regulation or other fundamental rights.
(2) The reason you selected the artifact(s).
(3) The analysis, or analyses, you find interesting to apply from among the theories we have covered so far. Choose a combination of approaches suited to your artifacts, and at least one approach that you did not use in your Integrative Paper #1 -- e.g., Use of topics in legal discussion; Use of a particular canon or canons in assessing the weight of the artifact? What is revealed about rules and relationships? What does a rhetorical analysis reveal? Indeterminacy in legal discourse – what decides? & more canons! etc. Remember your choice of how to use the interpretive approaches is also an indication of your mastery of the course material.
Note: The Précis constitutes 50 points of Written Prep.