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Rhetorical Analysis Of Benjamin Franklin

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I believe that Franklin wrote the phrase “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” as Franklin's argumentative style uses persuasion,friendliness, and the truth while staying simple. All those traits are shown in the phrase there are no sings of aggressiveness, sounds friendly, and is persuasive. It's stated in Franklin on junto paragraph 1 that junto focused on "the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth". However Franklin commonly used the Socratic method saying "I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight
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