Question

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What kind of evidence is given in the excerpt from Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address?

Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

A.
example
B.
expert opinion
C.
statistics
D.
logical reasoning

Answer 1

D. logical reasoning

Lincoln uses analogy and logical argument (comparing the Union to a contract and reasoning about how contracts can be dissolved), not examples, expert opinion, or statistics.