Question

excerpt from \is it a crime for a u.s. citizen to vote?\ by susan b. anthony delivered in monroe county, ny, 1873 friends and fellow-citizens: i stand before you to-night, under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. it shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, i not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizens right, guaranteed to me and all united states citizens by the national constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny. our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws. we assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. we throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty, and property. and when 100 or 1,000,000 people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals. they agree to abandon the methods of brute force in the adjustment of their differences, and adopt those of civilization. nor can you find a word in any of the grand documents left us by the fathers that assumes for government the power to create or to confer rights. the declaration of independence, the united states constitution, the constitutions of the several states and the organic part a: which sentence from the speech contains an example of repetition for rhetorical effect? we, the people of the united states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and established this constitution for the united states of america. it was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this union. here is no shadow of government authority over rights, nor exclusion of any from their full and equal enjoyment. and it is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government - the ballot.

Explanation:

Repetition is a rhetorical device where a word or phrase is repeated for emphasis. In the sentence "It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union", the phrase "we, the people" is repeated multiple times to emphasize the inclusive nature of the people forming the Union.

Answer:

It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union.