The answer is
A) <span>It was we, the people . . . 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.</span>
<u>Part A</u>
The way that imagery affects the poem is by emphasizing the responsabilities of freedom.
The correct answer is A. The speaker names all the conditions that he thinks a free country and society has to have in order to awake, to break free.
<u>Part B</u>
The phrase from the poem that best illustrates the answer in part A is C: "clear stream of reason".
The answer is A :)
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