Read the excerpt from Susan B. Anthony’s “On Women's Right to Vote.”It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.

Anthony uses logical reasoning by examining the Constitution’s wording: it says “we, the people,” rather than limiting the Union’s founders to men. She then reasons that liberty should be secured for the whole people, including women. This is a logical argument based on the text’s meaning, not evidence from statistics or a direct appeal to emotion or ethics.

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