The passage of the fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was viewed by some as a blessing and a curse. I would have sided with the National Woman Suffrage Association who did not support the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment is the constitutional amendment that was ratified in 1869 that forbade states to deny citizens the right to vote on grounds of race, color,or “previous condition of servitude.” I would have sided with the National Woman Suffrage Association because Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women’s rights activists should fight for women to be included as well. The National Woman Suffrage Association was a suffrage group …show more content…
In fact, it is better to be the slave of an educated white man, than of a degraded, ignorant black one.”(Stanton) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony believed that if they were not guaranteed their rights then their emancipation which was the effort to secure equal rights and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns, was just another form of slavery but worse than being a slave to an educated white …show more content…
“She declared that the vote was implied right under the Constitution, by virtue of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.” (Victoria C. Woodhull) After this statement Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony invited her to speak at a convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association. They believed that since the Fifteenth Amendment stated that the states couldn’t deny citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race then women should be able to vote as well because “Women, white and black, belong to races, although to different races. A race of people comprises all the people, male and female. The right to vote cannot be denied on account of race. All people included in the term race have the right to vote, unless otherwise prohibited.” (Victoria C.
The 14th Amendment passed by Congress and the amendment that we created in class show similar and different sections and information. The 14th amendment passed by Congress and our class express pros and cons that affect the United States heavily. The class amendment has a chance of being ratified if some articles/sections are changed. The South would be deeply affected if the amendment was to be passed. Clearly the 14th amendment passed by Congress and by the class would affect the South deeply and heavily.
The Eighth amendment causes a big controversial in everyday cases. The 8th amendment is about, no cruel and unusual punishment. This means you can't get severely punished or be punished for no reason. “These bill of rights were written by James Madison.’ ” These bills were ratified in December 15, 1791.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that women are citizens. Women have never been legally declared persons in this country, not by the Founding Fathers, not by the Constitution, not by the Supreme Court. The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees to right to vote to all U.S. citizens, whatever their race, whether they had been born free or born a slave, but it didn’t include women the right to vote. Women fought along for the abolition of slavery. When the battle was won, black men got the right to vote.
The twelfth amendment is one of the amendments to the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights is a list of the first ten changes made to the United States Constitution. The rest of the amendments were simply added to the United States Constitution. These changes are made to better and perfect the country, as no country is ever truly perfect. Utopias are a fictional trope and cannot be replicated in real life.
The rights that all citizens have were ensured by the constitution and therefore they cannot be denied by a law pass by the state. Anthony assured that a law that takes away women’s rights to vote because of their gender is a “violation to the supreme law of the land” (19). If their rights were to be revoke half of the country would become superior to the other causing the rights of liberty and equality to disappear. Denying the rights of a woman based on her gender makes the country less of a democracy and more of an aristocracy (Anthony 19). The country was built upon equality for all but if women were not included than equality would never be
However, when thought of, most people remember her contributions to the women’s rights movement. She, and other feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, began to realize that there were numerous similarities between slaves and women. Both were fighting to get away from the male-dominated culture and beliefs. In 1848, these women began a convention in Seneca Falls, regarding women’s rights(Brinkley 330). They believed that women should be able to vote, basing their argument on the clause “all men and women are created equal”.
The very Constitution declares that when a government no longer has the safety and rights of their people in mind, then the people should take it upon themselves to abolish it, but women did not have a vote to exercise this right. Similarly, in their article, “Teaching the New Departure: The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony” Kathi Kern and Linda Levstik state,“For Anthony and hundreds of other women in the early years of Reconstruction, “taking” their freedom meant exacting their rights at the point where citizenship was “produced”: the polling booth” (Kern and Levstik 123). Voting was and is an essential part of citizenship in the United States,
Objections to Woman Suffrage Women’s suffrage was the largest reform movement and this movement brought a lot of change for women and everyone in America. Women for many years faced so many obstacles from inequality. They were faced with restrictions in labor, they were unable to have certain occupations, and they were also unable to vote. There were many objections to women’s suffrage, however, women and their accomplishments and integrity answered and gave the reasoning behind them all. In other countries, women suffrage brought good change to their country.
Women want a chance. They want a chance to prove themselves, and they want a chance to prove that they are no less than men on any level. Politicians may think that the 19th amendment was enough to prove women’s equality, but the right to vote does not even begin to compare to what women have to go through on a daily basis and how hard they have to work to get recognition and thrive in today’s society. Not only did women fight for this, some men also used their power to fight for them. These very few men that fought for women’s suffrage saw the potential in women and knew that they were not any less than men, they are citizens of the United States and should be treated like they are.
Repeal of The 17th Amendment: Current Context The seventeenth amendment is the amendment to the United States’ constitution that was ratified on April 8th, 1913. It revoked the election of senators by state legislatures and gave the duty of electing senators to American citizens directly. The seventeenth amendment is not currently being proposed by congress; however, many conflicting opinions about the seventeenth amendment’s effect on federalism in the United States result in debates among political parties regarding whether it should be repealed. The Tea Party movement, a political party that stems from the Republican Party and became prominent in 2009, emphasizes negative outcomes of the seventeenth amendment and how a repeal would benefit
How they couldn’t vote and how they didn’t have the rights that white men had. But throughout the whole speech, she is trying to convince people to start a big ordeal on how white men are not the only ones able to vote. In conclusion, the author is speaking to her fellow women and the to the wrong white men of the United States. Her purpose of making this speech is that woman have just as much right to vote as white men do.
For a very long time, the voting rights of the citizens have been a problem in the US. It started out with only men with land being able to vote, and then expanded to white men, and then to all men. However, women were never in the situation, they were disregarded and believed to not be worthy enough to have the same rights as men. They were essentially being treated as property, therefore having no rights. But, in Susan B. Anthony’s speech, she hits upon the point that women are just as righteous as men.
In 1848 Black women made their first bid for equality in meetings with black men. “At one meeting of the National Convention of Colored Freedmen in Cleveland, Ohio a black woman proposed that women delegates be allowed to speak and vote as equals, eventually, they reclassified eligible voters as “persons” instead of men and women were allowed to participate equally”. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton changed the 15th Amendment by supporting that it should voting rights to former slaves, and that it should also include women. The northern part of the country often gave more rights to black women, the southern part of the country was sadly more close minded and still saw women as incapable and not as good as men. During the Civil War white and free black women in the North established soldiers’ aid societies.
Throughout the text it is addressed that the federal constitution says “we the people”, the government has no right to take away rights from just one gender, and that women are considered people. This is the reason why “ Women’s Rights to Suffrage” was most compelling; it explains why everyone should be equal and specifically women and men. Susan B Anthony was one of many to fight for women to have the same rights as men in today’s
Susan B. Anthony, a woman who was arrested for illegally voting in the president election of 1872, in her “On Women's Right to Vote” speech, argues that women deserve to be treated as citizens of America and be able to vote and have all the rights that white males in America have. She begins by introducing her purpose, then provides evidence of how women are citizens of America, not just males by using the preamble of the Constitution, then goes on about the how this problem has became a big problem and occurs in every home in the nation, and finally states that women deserve rights because the discrimination against them is not valid because the laws and constitutions give rights to every CITIZEN in America. Anthony purpose is to make the woman of America realize that the treatment and limitations that hold them back are not correct because they are citizens and they deserve to be treated like one. She adopts a expressive and confident tone to encourage and light the hearts of American woman. To make her speech effective, she incorporates ethos in her speech to support her claims and reasons.