The correct answer is B
evidence
persuasive arguments must provide evidence and facts to back up its arguments as people tend to believe in facts delivered with evidence. This can take the form of statistics and other forms of scientific facts back up methods.
Your answer is A. True
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The main content of the passage is to present a possible situation in which a violent leader imposes the law on the country by force ("at the point of the sword"), which presumably leads to many deaths. This was what has happened, in Paine's interpretation under William the Conqueror in England. The intention is to show that this situation is undesired in America and to encourage Americans to fight against such a government.
