Please write a 5-page paper in response to ONE of the following questions. Papers must be typed and double-spaced. Use a 12-point font and one-inch margins. When quoting or paraphrasing the text, please cite the page number you are quoting or paraphrasing. Plagiarism on any assignment, including rough drafts, will earn you a failing grade for the assignment in question.

Question.
Socrates believes a city is a partnership in justice where all that is common is shared. Yet political power is not shared. Why is power not shared, and does its not being shared undermine the larger partnership in justice that Socrates envisions?

There is no need for footnotes or endnotes in this paper. Merely cite,at the end of the sentence, both the title of the book (in italics) and the page you citing. There is no need for secondary sources.