Rory Mcconnell

English

10 April, 14:14

1. Read the excerpt and answer the question.

on were great men-high in literary

of honor, and incapable of asserting principles

Yet the men who framed this declaration were great me

acquirements-high in their sense of honor, and incapable on

inconsistent with those on which they were acting.

Se on which they were acting. They perfectly understood the

meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood

and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized word

embrace the negro race, which, by con

he negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded mom

lized Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery.

it would be understood by others,

t of the civilized world be supposed to

-Dred Scott v. Sandford,

Supreme Court of the United States

Which statement provides the best counterclaim to tansy's claim?