Answer:
The words from the excerpt that best support the official nature of the document are:
"authorize" and "impose"
Explanation:
This official document is giving certain people permission and power. Notice that, throughout the text, we have several strong words, such as "authorize", "prescribe", "determine", and "impose". Those words help convey the sense of authority of the document and the people involved - those who have written it and those who are addressed by it. The same words, if used in an unofficial, regular document or text, would be considered rude, even arrogant. However, since this context does involve the delegation of power and authority, such words are acceptable and necessary.
Answer:
Frederick Douglass's friends in the abolitionist movement were all extremely faithful Christians, but, in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass has some really harsh criticisms for slave owners who claim to be Christians. (Douglass believes that a person can't both be a Christian and a slave owner.)
Not only does Douglass hate hypocrites, but he also tells us that religious slave owners are even worse than those who don't pretend to be religious. This sometimes got Douglass in trouble with Christians who thought he was attacking them instead of religious imposters. (That's why he wrote an entire appendix just to explain that he was against religious hypocrisy, not religion itself.)
Explanation:
<span>D. There is no single topic sentence.
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