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This 13 page paper takes the book “Chimpanzee Politics” by Frans de Waal as a springboard for answering five questions about the chimps described in the book, and how their behavior can be related to human behavior. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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book is the way in which the relationships among the chimps seem to have counterparts in human interactions. This paper uses de Waals book as a starting point for a
discussion of five questions about politics. Discussion The first question concerns mans natural ambition for power: what was the Founders view of it and does it apply to the chimps?
The Founders realized that the desire for power is fundamental to all men, and that curbing that instinct would be difficult in the new nation, especially because the citizens of
the United States have "no common national origin or ethnicity that currently forms our shared identity as Americans" (Wolff). Since Americans are not all French or German or Spanish; or
all Jewish or Muslim or Christian, the nation is founded not on ethnicity or religious heritage, but on the rule of law (Wolff). Common experience has shown that adherence to
the rule of law guarantees a well-functioning society, liberty and equality of opportunity "even in the face of those who, through ambition for power or wealth, would seek to impose
their will on the less powerful" (Wolff). The so-called "rule of law" has been the cornerstone of the nation since its founding because the Founders understood that "oppression ...
occurs when those in power control the law for their own purposes" (Wolff). The Founders understood that if this rag-tag society was to stand a chance, it had to have
laws based on "certain fundamental principles" rather than the "arbitrary whims of those holding government power at any moment" (Wolff). This was the only true defense against tyranny (Wolff). It
can be argued that the 9/11 attack did more than scare Americans to death; it gave those who do in fact hope to turn the nation into a dictatorship the
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