*Review the excerpt from Barbara Jordan's speech. Answer the following three questions.

-List every claim or opinion expressed by Jordan. If the opinion is supported by evidence, label it as "substantiated". If the opinion is stated but there is no evidence to support it, label it as "unsubstantiated".

-Based on your list, does Jordan effectively support her opinions? Why or why not?

-Consider the previous excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and the South African Constitution. Review the opinions stated within those texts. Are those claims substantiated with evidence? How do you know?

Speech- Mr. Chairman, I join my colleague, Mr. Rangel, in thanking you for giving the junior members of this committee the glorious opportunity of sharing the pain of this inquiry. Mr. Chairman, you are a strong man, and it has not been easy but we have tried as best we can to give you as much assistance as possible.
Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, "We, the people." It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people. Today I am an inquisitor. A hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution.