Write a 3-4 page (typed, 12 pt font double spaced) essay analyzing the rhetorical strategies used by authors to achieve their purpose in the pursuit of justice in America. Look closely at one text or do a comparative analysis of two texts. In Susan B. Anthony's speech on voting rights, she argues that all women deserve the right to vote by using many different strategies, but three big ones are, The use of the constitution, the use of irrefutable logic,. Susan B. Anthony uses the constitution to convince her audience that women should have the right to vote. She correctly informs the audience that, “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the …show more content…
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” Susan using the preamble as a source would have forced The preamble is held in high regard by the American people and that would mean her audience would accept what she was saying as an extension of our founding fathers words. She also used the small detail in the preamble which blocks any counter argument because the highest law of the land, the base of all our countries and the greatest law of our land says that all people should be able to vote. How would you argue against the preamble? Another way Susan affirms voting rights to the audience is through argumentation. Convincing the crowd that voting rights for women are important and a right given by the United States of America is a tall task, but Susan finds facts and uses reasoning to accomplish it. Susan points out that voting is for all of the people, not half of the people, and proposes the idea that, “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half