. The following transcript comes from the monumental
2008 case of Heller vs. District of Columbia. The result
of this Supreme Court case determined the Second
Amendment protects the right of an individual to keep
and bear arms. Read the statement and then answer
the question that follows:
Okay. I'd like to respond-certainly, Justice Scalia. I'd like to respond to the
point about the—the District of Columbia's position over the years with
respect to the functional firearms ban. The Petitioners have had two
opportunities to urge courts to adopt this so-called self-defense exception
which they construed in the amendment. The first opportunity came in 1978
in McIntosh versus Washington, where the petitioners urged the Court of
Appeals of the District of Columbia to uphold the law because it was
irrational in their view to prohibit self-defense in the home with firearms. They
deemed it to be too dangerous, and this was a legitimate policy choice of the
City Council, and they actually prevailed in that view. The second opportunity
that the Petitioners had to urge this sort of self-defense construction was
actually in this case in the district court.
In one paragraph of five to eight sentences, evaluate whether the statement
is effective in terms of ethos. Use evidence from the statement to support
your answer. Use proper spelling and grammar.

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen

the father traits is what becomes more dominate the mothers is half dominate or vise versa depending on the gender.

the answer would be c   i believe thats the most reasonable answer