"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.
Which statement best evaluates the effectiveness of
the inductive reasoning used in the speaker's
argument?
It is effective because it begins with the specific
principles of the US government.
It is effective because it explains how the United
States shows its values in the Constitution.
It is not effective because it argues that the US
Constitution is an unfair document.
It is not effective because it examines why the
United States has allowed injustice to occur.