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Claude: Conclusion To introduce greater public accountability into French foreign-policy decisions, France should hold referenda on major foreign-policy issues. ████████ ███████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██ █ ████████ █████ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████
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Summarize Argument: Counter-Position
Claude argues that to ensure "greater public accountability" on foreign-policy decisions, France should hold referenda on foreign-policy issues rather than relying on election results as a basis for decisions. This is because elections involve multiple issues, and so election results are too "imprecise" to count as a foreign-policy mandate.
Lorraine responds by arguing that, because the general public is "unwilling or unable" to become informed about foreign-policy issues, introducing referenda would lead to "foreign-policy disaster."
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Incorrect. (A) weakens Lorraine’s argument. If people become better-informed after referenda are introduced, then the referenda would be less likely to lead to disaster.
b
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Incorrect. (B) neither strengthens nor weakens Lorraine's argument. Lorraine has already stated that the general public doesn’t know much about foreign policy overall, not that they are better-informed about the outlines versus the specifics or vice-versa.
c
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Correct. If referenda would make it impossible for France's allies to make reasonable decisions, this strengthens Lorraine's claim that referenda will lead to foreign-policy disaster.
d
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Incorrect. We don't know that the referenda would actually require a minimum amount of signatures. But if they did, and this answer choice were true, then the public would likely become better-informed, and referenda would be less likely to have negative results. This would weaken Lorraine's argument.
e
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Incorrect. This is more relevant to Claude's argument than Lorraine's. Lorraine's argument isn't about whether elections constitute a public mandate for foreign policy decisions, just about the likely outcomes of introducing referenda.