1. Read the excerpt and answer the question.
on were great men-high in literary
of honor, and incapable of asserting principles
Yet the men who framed this declaration were great me
acquirements-high in their sense of honor, and incapable on
inconsistent with those on which they were acting.
Se on which they were acting. They perfectly understood the
meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood
and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized word
embrace the negro race, which, by con
he negro race, which, by common consent, had been excluded mom
lized Governments and the family of nations, and doomed to slavery.
it would be understood by others,
t of the civilized world be supposed to
-Dred Scott v. Sandford,
Supreme Court of the United States
Which statement provides the best counterclaim to tansy’s claim ?