In a half page answer, identify the two strongest techniques of legal persuasion within the introduction of the brief from the following list; give one example of how each of these techniques was used in this section; and explain why these two selected techniques were the most effective: Specific and consistent theme Clarity Concision Variation in sentence lengths Presenting affirmative argument first and then rebuttal argument Antithesis ("It's not X; it's Y.") Active voice Affirmative sentences Evocative language - vivid nouns and verbs Memorable parallelism (Rule of Three) Transition

@ mycourses.stcl.edu (&) Read this Affordable Care Act Appellate Brief Introduction and Use it f... B LU LU INTRODUCTION The individual mandate rests on a claim of federal power that is both unprecedented and unbounded: the power to compel individuals to engage in commerce in order more effectively to regulate commerce. This asserted power does not exist. If Congress really had this remarkable authority, it would not have waited 220 years to exercise it. If this power really existed, both our Constitution and our constitutional history would look fundamentally different. We would not have a federal government with limited and enumerated powers, or States that continue to enjoy dignity and residual sovereignty. The extraordinary power that the federal government claims here is simply incompatible with our founding document. The Constitution protects and promotes individual liberty, while the mandate's threat to liberty is obvious. The power to compel a person to enter into an unwanted commercial relationship is not some modest step necessary and proper to perfect Congress' authority to regulate existing commercial intercourse. It is a revolution in the relationship between the central government and the governed. The Constitution grants the federal government only limited and enumerated powers and reserves the plenary police power to the States. There is nothing limited about the federal power asserted here. Given the breadth of the modern conception of commerce, there is almost no decision that Congress could not label \"economic\" and thereby compel under the federal government's theory. There is nothing @ mycourses.stcl.edu (&) R LHRENT chniques of Read this Affordable Care Act Appellate Brief Introduction and Use it f... Techniques of Persuasion Discussion Board + "Automatic Zoom v 2 left of the residual authority reserved to the States if Congress really has the power claimed. Finally, the Constitution divides and limits power to ensure accountability. Legislation, ation raising taxes, is supposed to be icult to pass. Those subjected to costly new regulations are expected to object. But if taxes can be disguised as mandates to enter into unwanted transactions and the regulated enticed by the promise of expanded business via those compelled transactions, the normal democratic process cannot perform its vital and intended limiting function. By checking this first assertion of this unbounded power, this Court will endanger no other legislation. Nor will it imperil health care policy, as all agree that there are ample constitutionalthough perhaps not politically feasiblealternatives to the mandate. However, by making clear that this uncabined authority is not among the limited and enumerated powers granted the federal government, this Court will preserve our basic constitutional structure and the individual liberty, state sovereignty, and government accountability it guarantees. STATEMENT OF THE CASE A. The Individual Mandate The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the \"ACA\" or \"Act\") imposes new and substantial obligations on every corner of society, from individuals to insurers to employers to States. Those obligations are designed to work together to expand both the demand for and the supply of health insurance, so as to achieve Congress' ultimate goal of