Mollie Silva

History

8 August, 17:30

What type of fallacy or faulty reasoning is used in this

passage?

Yet the men who framed this declaration were great men

-high in literary acquirements-high in their sense of

honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent

with those on which they were acting.

-Dred Scott v. Sandford,

Supreme Court of the United States

ad populum

begging the claim

genetic fallacy

O hasty generalization