According to each document, what policies and programs lead to social and political stability? What qualities do effective rulers possess?
What arguments did the Legalists make against the Confucian view of good government? How might a Confucian have countered the Legalist position?
How might proponents of each school have characterized the problems of the Warring States Period? What might each have seen as the root causes of disorder?
William Theodore de Bary, ed., Sources of East Asian Tradition, vol. 1: Premodern Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 112–114.