By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. i felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution through the preservation of the nation. right or wrong, i assumed this ground, and now avow it. i could not feel that to the best of my ability i had even tried to preserve the constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, i should permit the wreck of government, country, and constitution altogether. summarize

Experts told [women] how to catch a man and keep him, how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet training, how to cope with sibling rivalry and adolescent rebellion; how to buy a dishwasher, bake bread, cook gourmet snails, and build a swimming pool with their own hands; how to dress, look, and act more feminine and make marriage more exciting; how to keep their husbands from dying young and their sons from growing into delinquents. they were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents. what is the effect of friedan's comma usage in this excerpt? it shows the building importance of each item in friedan's list of ideal female traits. 0 it separates items in a long list of expectations without slowing the pace of the paragraph. it creates abrupt pauses that allow the reader time to appreciate the absurdity of each additional skill.