Douglass, Narrative (1845): "I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it." Claim: His ignorance is caused by missing documentation. Which words carry it exactly?

Jacobs, Incidents (1861): "Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction... I have concealed the names of places, and given persons fictitious names." Which words best support that she hides where events took place?

Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863): "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." Which words support the contrast between speech and action?

Lincoln, Second Inaugural (1865): "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." Which words support symmetrical religious appeals?

Declaration of Independence (1776): "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Which words exactly support popular sovereignty?

U.S. Constitution, Preamble (1787): "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Claim: The purpose extends to present and future Americans. Which words carry that claim?

Federalist No. 10 (1787): "Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires." Claim: Madison treats liberty as what sustains faction. Which words carry the comparison?

Federalist No. 51 (1788): "constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments... Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." Which words best support checks rooted in motive?

Paine, Common Sense (1776): "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." Claim: Paine elevates the colonial cause as unusually important. Which words carry that claim?

Brown v. Board (1954): "We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place." Which words carry the claim's stated limit?

Plessy dissent (1896): "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Which claim does the sentence support without overreaching?

Wollstonecraft, Vindication (1792): "I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves." Which claim stays within the evidence?

Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849): "Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually...inexpedient." Which claim is adequately qualified?

Washington, Farewell Address (1796): "permanent, inveterate antipathies...and passionate attachments...should be excluded." Which claim does this evidence sustain?

Lincoln, House Divided speech (1858): "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved... but I do expect it will cease to be divided." Which claim is best qualified?

Anthony, "Is It a Crime..." (1873): "The only question left to be settled, now, is: Are women persons?" Which claim stays within the sentence?

Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895): "cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water." Which claim does the anecdote support?

Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (1903): "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Which claim is sustained without overreach?

Federalist No. 78 (1788): The judiciary has "neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment." Which claim fits the evidence?

Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961): "ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." Which claim is adequately qualified?

FDR, First Inaugural (1933): "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." A student says this proves there were no real economic problems. What fixes the overreach?

FDR, Four Freedoms (1941): "we look forward to a world... The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world." A student says free speech already exists everywhere. What fixes it?

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969): Students do not "shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." A student says schools can never regulate conduct. What fixes the overreach?

Korematsu dissent (1944): "The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon." A student says Jackson proves the military order would last forever. What fixes the overreach?

King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963): "This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.'" A student says every request for patience is dishonest. What fixes the overreach?