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10-20-2008, 12:27 PM
Writing Contest
Essay Contest on The Law and Economic Freedom
FEE invites students to read The Law by Frederic Bastiat and address one or more of the questions below. Students participating in speech and debate are invited to reference their current debate topic as well.
1. Since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force cannot lawfully be used to do it. Why not? Why does Bastiat refer to such a use of force as a perversion of force?
2. Since the law organizes justice, why should it not also organize labor, education, and religion? What is the author's answer to this question? How does the law commit legal plunder when used to promote charity? Education? Morality and religion?
3. “Socialism confuses the distinction between government and society.” How, according to the author? Do you agree? Explain.
4. Bastiat asks on page 23, “How did politicians ever believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain—the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense, constitute prosperity?” How does he answer this question?
5. What is liberty? Give Bastiat's answer (pages 39–40). Do you agree? Explain.
6. “A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated” (page 51). Give the author's explanation of this statement.
Word Count
Essays must be 2,000–3,000 words in length
Deadline
Midnight (EDT), January 15, 2009
Eligibility
The Foundation for Economic Education's 2008 Essay Contest on The Law and Economic Freedom is open to high school and homeschool students.
The Law is available at no charge for contest participants. Available online here (pdf).
Guidelines and Rules
Eligibility The competition is open to high school and homeschool students. There is no minimum or maximum age for entrants. FEE employees (and their immediate family members), trustees, and Freeman editors and columnists are not eligible.
Prize Winners will be awarded a first place prize of $1,000, second place prize of $500, or an honorable mention, and have his or her essay considered for publication in The Freeman, Notes from FEE, or on FEE's website.
Electronic-Submission Procedure Each entrant may submit only one essay. The submission must be the original work of the entrant and must not have been previously published or submitted for publication. The competition begins October 15, 2008. All submissions must be received by the Foundation for Economic Education by 12 midnight (EDT) on January 15, 2009. Late entries will not be considered. FEE also reserves the right not to consider essays that are misdirected or incompletely received for any reason, including hardware or software malfunction or incompatibility. Each submitted essay must be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word document or Adobe PDF attachment to essaycontest@fee.org. The accompanying e-mail must include the entrant's full name, home address, and phone number only—and no additional text. The name of the writer must not appear anywhere in the attached essay file. FEE will acknowledge receipt of entries by an automatic e-mail response. All entries become the property of FEE and will not be returned. Essays with one or two authors are welcomed. In the case of co-authors, entrants should provide the full names, addresses, and phone numbers of both authors in the submission e-mail.
Judging To assure anonymity, the entrant's name must not appear on any part of the essay. The writer shall identify himself or herself only in the text of the e-mail submission. FEE will assign each entry a unique code. Judges will evaluate essays without knowledge of the entrant's identity and select the winner on the basis of readability, clarity, organization, originality, and how the essay addresses the topic statement. In the event that no entry is deemed to be of publishable quality, the judges reserve the right not to make the award for 2009. The judges' decision will be announced in February, 2009.
See this link for more info:
http://www.fee.org/events/detail.asp?id=6306
:)
Essay Contest on The Law and Economic Freedom
FEE invites students to read The Law by Frederic Bastiat and address one or more of the questions below. Students participating in speech and debate are invited to reference their current debate topic as well.
1. Since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force cannot lawfully be used to do it. Why not? Why does Bastiat refer to such a use of force as a perversion of force?
2. Since the law organizes justice, why should it not also organize labor, education, and religion? What is the author's answer to this question? How does the law commit legal plunder when used to promote charity? Education? Morality and religion?
3. “Socialism confuses the distinction between government and society.” How, according to the author? Do you agree? Explain.
4. Bastiat asks on page 23, “How did politicians ever believe this weird idea that the law could be made to produce what it does not contain—the wealth, science, and religion that, in a positive sense, constitute prosperity?” How does he answer this question?
5. What is liberty? Give Bastiat's answer (pages 39–40). Do you agree? Explain.
6. “A science of economics must be developed before a science of politics can be logically formulated” (page 51). Give the author's explanation of this statement.
Word Count
Essays must be 2,000–3,000 words in length
Deadline
Midnight (EDT), January 15, 2009
Eligibility
The Foundation for Economic Education's 2008 Essay Contest on The Law and Economic Freedom is open to high school and homeschool students.
The Law is available at no charge for contest participants. Available online here (pdf).
Guidelines and Rules
Eligibility The competition is open to high school and homeschool students. There is no minimum or maximum age for entrants. FEE employees (and their immediate family members), trustees, and Freeman editors and columnists are not eligible.
Prize Winners will be awarded a first place prize of $1,000, second place prize of $500, or an honorable mention, and have his or her essay considered for publication in The Freeman, Notes from FEE, or on FEE's website.
Electronic-Submission Procedure Each entrant may submit only one essay. The submission must be the original work of the entrant and must not have been previously published or submitted for publication. The competition begins October 15, 2008. All submissions must be received by the Foundation for Economic Education by 12 midnight (EDT) on January 15, 2009. Late entries will not be considered. FEE also reserves the right not to consider essays that are misdirected or incompletely received for any reason, including hardware or software malfunction or incompatibility. Each submitted essay must be e-mailed as a Microsoft Word document or Adobe PDF attachment to essaycontest@fee.org. The accompanying e-mail must include the entrant's full name, home address, and phone number only—and no additional text. The name of the writer must not appear anywhere in the attached essay file. FEE will acknowledge receipt of entries by an automatic e-mail response. All entries become the property of FEE and will not be returned. Essays with one or two authors are welcomed. In the case of co-authors, entrants should provide the full names, addresses, and phone numbers of both authors in the submission e-mail.
Judging To assure anonymity, the entrant's name must not appear on any part of the essay. The writer shall identify himself or herself only in the text of the e-mail submission. FEE will assign each entry a unique code. Judges will evaluate essays without knowledge of the entrant's identity and select the winner on the basis of readability, clarity, organization, originality, and how the essay addresses the topic statement. In the event that no entry is deemed to be of publishable quality, the judges reserve the right not to make the award for 2009. The judges' decision will be announced in February, 2009.
See this link for more info:
http://www.fee.org/events/detail.asp?id=6306
:)