1. What purpose does consideration serve?
2. What are the proper limits on the doctrine of consideration?

ProfessorPryor'spreliminary groundwork takes the form of 3 doctrines and 3 perspectives for answering those questions.

Each of the 3 perspectives suggests why promises should be enforced and some limits to when they should be enforced. Provide a summary of all 3 of the assigned portions of the Article's perspectives. After your summary, choose 1 of those 3 perspectives and discuss why that perspective might provide an appropriate limit on the courts' power to enforce some promises. Last, at the end of your discussion, write a short hypothetical fact pattern that you have created where consideration exists between 2 parties, but the perspective you choose suggests that courts should not enforce the contract.