Explanation for Question 40 From the Reading Section on the 2018 May Sat
Question number 40 says Sumner would most likely fall. 2 The simple question proposed by Douglas and passage one for being what? 3 So the simple question in passage, 4 one is in lines 36 to 37. 5 Recall that Douglas is saying, will you allow the people to legislate 6 for themselves upon the subject of slavery? 7 So he's saying it really comes down to whether the legislators believe 8 in people being able to legislate for themselves or not. 9 So that's his, his simple question. Um, 10 in passage two, we see Sumner says, 11 um, that because slavery is 12 in itself an arrogant denial of human rights by no human reason, 13 can the power to establish a wrong replaced among the attributes of any just 14 sovereignty. So he's making the claim that this isn't real sovereignty, 15 um, because of the, the extent to which slavery is a moral no, 16 no. Um, popular sovereignty is being upheld by allowing people to vote on the 17 question. 18 So taking a look at our answer choices here, 19 I says bias because it places the interest of territories over those of established 20 states. There's really no weighing of interest of territories versus established 21 states. Established states aren't discussed as much here. 22 So I, as out says irrelevant since territorial citizens already have the freedom 23 to legislate on local matters. This is very incorrect. 24 Um, he establishes earlier in that middle paragraph 25 of the passage that they actually don't have the freedom to legislate on a 26 lot...