Explanation for Question 35 From the Reading Section on the 2018 May Sat
Question number 35 says one of Sumner, 2 central claims and passage two is that the Kansas, 3 Nebraska bill had the effect of what? 4 So let's return to his discussion of the bill. 5 Um, he starts to discuss it here, 6 its characteristics for their parent and the general structure of the bill. 7 Um, here, he says that people were 8 despoiled of every essential privilege of sovereignty. 9 Um, and he goes on to give examples of that, 10 that in this next paragraph, he says, 11 um, slavery is in itself an arrogant denial of human rights. 12 And by no human reason, can the power to establish such wrong. 13 We placed among the attributes of any Joe sovereignty. 14 So he's taking issue with Douglass's claim that, 15 um, allowing people to choose whether slavery 16 is legal or not in the territory that they live in is reflecting popular 17 sovereignty or not. He is saying that this is actually stripping sovereignty away. 18 Um, he says that in refusing slavery place in the 19 territories, he's not denying popular rights, 20 but he's upholding them. He's extending popular rights. 21 So he's taking issue with the idea that getting to make this choice about 22 whether slavery is legal is actually providing anybody with any additional rights as Douglas 23 claims. So looking at our answer choices, 24 I says disrupting the balance of authority between slaveholding and non slave holding territorial 25 governments. This balance of authority is not really a common point 26 that he's trying t...