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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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Strengthen

We want to strengthen Lorraine's argument. In other words, we want additional reasons to think Lorraine is right when she predicts that introducing these referenda will lead to "foreign-policy disaster." One potential way (but certainly not the only way) to strengthen her argument would be to confirm the assumption we were trying to undermine in the previous question: that the public will continue to be unwilling or unable to become informed about foreign-policy issues even after these referenda are introduced.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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