Read the passage from The American Plague. Finally, Washington turned to Attorney General Edmund Randolph. As the nation's chief law official and legal counsel of the United States, Randolph was someone whose opinion held great weight. In a delicately worded letter, Randolph told Washington that no, the president could not move Congress, even in an emergency. "It seems to be unconstitutional," Randolph noted. Which sentence contains the central idea of the passage?

C. In a delicately worded letter, Randolph told Washington that no, the president could not move Congress, even in an emergency.

Explanation:

This sentence shows the main idea of the passage: exactly what Randolph advised Washington. None of the other sentences work, because the main point is that he said Congress could not be moved.

Test it out: if you remove all the other sentences and leave only C, the main point should still make sense. And it does.

the answer is: b: however, that doesn’t mean that the current drought isn’t real.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)