Perhaps the most significant and constructive change in national polit
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15 Oct 2019, 08:25
"Perhaps the most significant and constructive change in national politics would be the abolition of the Vice Presidency.
Each of the following, if true, would strengthen the above argument, except:"
(A) There are few, if any, specific duties or responsibilities assigned to the Vice Presidency.
This choice really strengthens the conclusion because keeping a persion with little responsibility or duties will not help national politics
(B) A historian claimed that the post was "superfluous."
A historian’s opinion is not reliable in politics issue. So this one is irrelevant, neither strengthen nor weaken, B is correct answer
(C) People of Presidential caliber refused the Vice Presidential nomination.
Usually people who run campaign for Presidency but failed are the one to be elected for Vice Presidency, why do we keep this title why they don’t want to be Vice President? So this one provides reason for not maintaining the Vice Presidency
(D) The office can waste a good politician for four or eight years.
“A good politician” here is the one who wasn’t elected for the Presidency, so wasting “a good politician” is better than wasting “the best politician” who officially is President
So this one also strengthen conclusion
(E) The office puts people in line for the Presidency who were not chosen to be President.
This fact tells us that people who were not chosen to be President will not be chosen for Vice Presidency anymore, but was put in line for the Presidency, so this one strengthens our conclusion