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The Crime For A Citizen Of The United States To Vote By Susan B Anthony

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Fight for Your Rights Women’s rights to vote have remained a controversial issue for decades. In Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote, written by Susan B. Anthony, the author attempts to show the reader that women should have the right to vote. Making a similar point in Emmeline Pankhurst writes Freedom of Death, where she addresses the same global issue. Both authors, in favor of women’s rights, provide sufficient evidence in proving the previously mentioned claims by providing reliable sources, such as the declaration of independence, and a firsthand account of womanhood, including personal feelings about inequality toward women. The crime of citizens having the right to vote. It is indeed not a crime to vote at all. We know this because of what Mis Antony expresses in her speech in the second to last paragraph she states, “The Declaration of Independence is all about protecting the people in the exercise of their God-given rights”. What she is stating here is that it is your God given right to do what you please no matter what, male or female. Furthermore, she goes on to state in her last paragraph “All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable …show more content…

While covering the issue concerning a plethora of races, genders, backgrounds, etc., she mainly keeps her focus on women’s rights to elect. We know this because she states in paragraph 5 “I am a woman; it is necessary in the twentieth century to win the rights of citizenship”. She says it is a must have for her to have the right to citizenship so she can vote. She uses personal experience to show her rhetoric. She goes on to say in her last paragraph “men in our audience are the very simple fact that women are human beings”. She is using a distraught term to express that women are in fact real, just like men. This also explains her thoughts on

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Anna attempts to understand how ignorant women prevent women from voting, yet ignorant men don’t prevent men from voting. If the rules of a republic are to be applied to all, why not this one? Anna uses irony to further prove her point that women should have the freedom to vote. In the second paragraph of the speech she states,”If a woman’s suffrage1 is wrong, it is a great wrong; if it is right, it is a profound and fundamental principle, and we all know, if we know what a Republic is, that it is the fundamental principle upon which a Republic must rise. Let us see where we are as a people; how we act here and what we think we are”(Lines 14-17).

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