You will role play the role of a junior analyst at Pundit Media, a news research

You will role play the role of a junior analyst at Pundit Media, a news research consultant company.
Part 1: For your first blog post, Ms. Reed asks you, along with several of your colleagues, to analyze the views of Plato, Aristotle, and Rawls on politics in a sovereign state.
Part 2: As part of the preparation for the forum, Reed asks you to prepare a brief explainer comparing and contrasting the views of Machiavelli and Hobbes on the nature of power and authority in the sovereign state to serve as a backgrounder for participants.