georgia democratic senator benjamin hill argues that louisiana republican senator william pitt kellogg was…

georgia democratic senator benjamin hill argues that louisiana republican senator william pitt kellogg was not lawfully elected by the louisiana legislature.\nfrom remarks in the u.s. senate, may 11, 1880\nthirty - seven states with a unanimous vote, cannot deprive the little state of delaware of her equal representation in this body. in the face of that grand tribute to the equality and sovereignty of the states, who cares for the taunts of these modern lilliputians in the science of government? their argument springs from the cheek and not from the brain, and is made for partisan and not for patriotic purposes. the man who can go before the american people and mock at this constitutional sovereignty of the states mocks at what our fathers made the grandest feature of the system, and the only one which the sovereign people bound themselves always to respect and never to change.\nthese sentences are from the last paragraph of the excerpt.\n\the senate, which is the very body organized for the purpose of preserving this right of the states, organized to represent the equality of the states, has power to destroy that right and equality!\\nwhich statement best describes the role of these sentences in the excerpt?\n1. they condemn the senates past actions as being self - interested and unpatriotic.\n2. they state that the senate alone has the authority to overthrow the constitution.\n3. they support the speakers premise that the authors of the policy are misguided.\n4. they explain how political power comes from the people and not the government.

georgia democratic senator benjamin hill argues that louisiana republican senator william pitt kellogg was not lawfully elected by the louisiana legislature.\nfrom remarks in the u.s. senate, may 11, 1880\nthirty - seven states with a unanimous vote, cannot deprive the little state of delaware of her equal representation in this body. in the face of that grand tribute to the equality and sovereignty of the states, who cares for the taunts of these modern lilliputians in the science of government? their argument springs from the cheek and not from the brain, and is made for partisan and not for patriotic purposes. the man who can go before the american people and mock at this constitutional sovereignty of the states mocks at what our fathers made the grandest feature of the system, and the only one which the sovereign people bound themselves always to respect and never to change.\nthese sentences are from the last paragraph of the excerpt.\n\the senate, which is the very body organized for the purpose of preserving this right of the states, organized to represent the equality of the states, has power to destroy that right and equality!\\nwhich statement best describes the role of these sentences in the excerpt?\n1. they condemn the senates past actions as being self - interested and unpatriotic.\n2. they state that the senate alone has the authority to overthrow the constitution.\n3. they support the speakers premise that the authors of the policy are misguided.\n4. they explain how political power comes from the people and not the government.

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The excerpt discusses the Senate's role in preserving state - equality and sovereignty. The sentences in question emphasize the Senate's purpose and how actions contrary to it are wrong, supporting the idea that those who act against this are misguided.

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  1. They support the speaker's premise that the authors of the policy are misguided.