Question 9 • RIDDLE-FL-1700370-Critical Thinking and Study Skills 25/26
Read the excerpt from "On Women’s Right to Vote” by Susan B. Anthony.The preamble of the Federal Constitution says:"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” . . . . For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.
Answer
A
It is effective because it begins with the specific principles of the US government.
B
It is effective because it explains how the United States shows its values in the Constitution.
C
It is not effective because it argues that the US Constitution is an unfair document.
D
It is not effective because it examines why the United States has allowed injustice to occur.
Explanation
Anthony quotes the Constitution’s promises to establish justice and secure liberty, then argues that denying women the vote contradicts those promises. This makes the passage effective because it uses the Constitution to show the values the United States claims to uphold and points out that women are excluded from them.
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