PrepTest 153, Section 4, Question 14

What we’re looking for

Working the answers

• A

  B discusses restraints on judicial power, but neither author frames the problem as whether the existing restraints should be strengthened generally. Their narrower concern is whether judges must be sincere when giving reasons.

• B
  Correct

  This is the question that opens A and appears explicitly in B's first paragraph. Both authors address whether a judge may say one thing while believing another, even though their defenses of honesty differ.

• C

  Institutional legitimacy is one practical benefit A mentions, and B's discussion of public trust is related. But whether candor is required for legitimacy is a question about one consequence. It doesn't encompass A's independent moral defense or B's additional concern about scrutiny of judicial reasons.

• D

  A mentions guidance to litigants as one benefit of transparency. B doesn't organize its argument around that benefit, and it isn't the shared question driving the two discussions.

• E

  Both authors discuss practical considerations, but the inquiry isn't limited to which side of a cost-benefit calculation wins. A specifically argues that outcomes alone fail to capture the moral duty. B also weighs the importance of candor rather than arguing that its costs outweigh its benefits.