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How does Thoreau use rhetoric to support his argument in this passage from "Resistance to Civil Government"? The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way

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he uses pathos

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He uses pathos, appealing to the emotion of pride in his audience.

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