#4 - Specific Reference, Parallel, Subject Perspective

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

That's excellent reasoning, LSAT.

The process you should have on these questions is exactly the one you seem to have used. You consider the situation in the passage and try to abstract it into broader terms. The key here is that a second party enforces the policies of a first party. That's similar to what we see in answer choice (C), where a second party publishes the ideas of a first party. In both cases, the enforcement and the publishing transform the responsibility for the actions.

Great work!

[lounalola]

I did not understand this question at all. Can someone break down how they would go about solving this one?

[Adam Tyson]

Check my explanation earlier in this thread, lounalola. This is a Parallel Reasoning question, so we need a relationship or situation that is substantially similar to the one being discussed in the passage. In the passage, the government became responsible for the restrictive covenants when they got involved by deciding the issue in a court case. It wasn't a government issue at first, just a contract between private parties, but it became state action - the covenants were attributed to the government - once they became involved (by deciding the case).

So now you need to look for an answer where someone is initially not involved in something, but when they get involved, they become responsible for it. That's like the newspaper publisher in answer C. They didn't write the column, but when they published it, it became their responsibility.