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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Authority

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on authority. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on authority.

  • The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

    Jose Marti

  • Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

    Robert E. Lee

  • Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

    Henry David Thoreau

  • Those who have been once intoxicated with power can never willingly abandon it.

    Edmund Burke

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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