Read the passage.
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,begin italics,Lillie Devereux Blake was an American suffragist. The following is from a speech given in 1900.,end italics,
from ,begin bold,Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the,end bold,
,begin bold,House of Representatives,end bold,
paragraph 1,Looking into the earnest faces of the wives of farmers, who have many times listened enrapt to your burning words as you spoke of the blessings of a free government, have you paused to explain that, so far as they were concerned, you trusted they would remember that the pledges and the privileges of the Constitution were not for them, and have added that this refusal of the privilege of helping to elect you by their ballots was a grievous wrong, and that you earnestly believed in a government which, in the words of the immortal Lincoln, would be "a government of the people, for the people, and by the people!"
paragraph 2,What is it now? It is a government "of the men people, for the men people, and by the men people," and . . . we shall insist that the phraseology of the Constitution shall be changed in accordance with facts. In the future let us have plain, true statements instead of specious falsehoods. Let us have new editions of the Constitution and of the laws amended so as to be in accordance with the existing conditions. Then shall the Declaration of Independence read: "We hold this fact to be self-evident, that all men people are born free and equal and that the governments derive their just powers from the consent of the men people."
(from "Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives" by Lillie Devereux Blake)
Question
What is the ,begin emphasis,main,end emphasis, technique the author uses to make her argument?
Answer options with 4 options
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pleading with the committee for compassion for the wives of farmers
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asking questions to show that no one truly understands Lincoln's words
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contrasting the ideas of the Constitution with the reality of women's rights
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suggesting the committee make revisions to the Constitution to benefit women
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