QUESTION TEXT: After the Second World War, the charter…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: The five major postwar powers should have vetoes.
REASONING: The great powers maintain world order. They shouldn’t have to obey any decision they disagreed with.
ANALYSIS: There’s one major flaw: the reasoning assumed that the major powers would stay the same. The members of the council with vetoes are permanent. They have permanent and sole authority, so no one else can join them.
This is a real life example. France and the UK were powerful after the war, but less so now. And Germany and Japan are now great powers, but they don’t have vetoes.
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- The stimulus didn’t mention democracy among nations. It’s possible to have a council that isn’t a democracy: this one has vetoes, so it’s hard to call it a democracy.
- CORRECT. If new major powers emerged, then they would have the burden of maintaining world peace, but they wouldn’t have the benefit of a veto.
- This doesn’t seem relevant to the question of whether major powers should have vetoes. The stimulus didn’t mention blocs, and we’re not told what effect this has.
- What would be the problem if this did happen? To weaken the argument, there’d have to be some problem with this situation. Alliances are to be expected.
- It’s to be expected that the decisions would favor the major powers. The stimulus argues that major powers should have to deal with decisions they don’t like.
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