Question

Select all the correct answers. What two arguments does Susan B. Anthony use to argue that women are entitled to vote? She states that the founding documents confer rights on all people, including women, and therefore women are entitled to vote. She states that women who are born in the United States are automatically considered citizens and therefore have the right to vote. She states that women already have rights, and they need the right to vote in order to protect these rights. She states that if the Constitution can guarantee certain rights to racial and ethnic minorities, then it must give women of all races the right to vote. She states that women have evolved since the time the Constitution was written, so they have earned more responsibility in governing the country.

Answer 1

Susan B. Anthony states that the founding documents confer rights on all people, including women, and therefore women are entitled to vote and she also states that women who are born in the United States are automatically considered citizens and therefore have the right to vote. These are the two arguments that she uses.

Susan B. Anthony was always committed to the women's suffrage movement since she considered the disfranchisement of women an injustice. On her speech, "On Women's Right to Vote" (1873), Susan B. Anthony, a famous women's rights activist, refers to the Constitution (1787), the supreme law of the United States and a power that no state can deny that establishes that all United States citizens, including women and men, are entitled to vote, in order to support her argument that women also have the right to vote. Furthermore, Susan B. Anthony argues that, by being persons, women are also citizens and that the disfranchisement of women that have been born in the United States goes against what Webster, Worcester and Bouvier, famous lexicographers, define as 'citizen' and what has been established in the Constitution, a violation which makes the government antidemocratic.

Anthony had an important role in the women's suffrage movement in a time when white men that governed the country discriminated different minorities, including women and black men.