Question

Yet the men who framed this declaration were great men—high in literary acquirements—high in their sense of honor, and incapable of asserting principles inconsistent with those on which they were acting.

–Dred Scott v. Sandford,
Supreme Court of the United States

What type of fallacy or faulty reasoning is used in this passage?

ad populum
begging the claim
genetic fallacy
hasty generalization

Answer 1

the answer is a) ad populum

Answer 2

ad populum

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