Read the paragraph from the Declaration of Independence. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Now, read the paragraph from the Declaration of Sentiments. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. To most effectively compare the two passages, the reader should compare
The correct option here would the the first option.
These two documents in essence represent the same sentiment, freedom and equality, and the time they are written and the backgrounds of the authors here are not that significant. Elizabeth Cady Stanton on purpose modeled her Declaration of Sentiments on the Declaration of Independence so the best way to compare them is to look the similarities in the wording as there lies both the similarity and the difference.
It is a rhetorical figure, related to irony and euphemism, by which something is affirmed, reduced or contradicted the opposite of what you want to affirm.
