The case the United States v. Susan B. Anthony was a criminal case taken up against Susan B. Anthony after she attempted to vote. She was found guilty and told to pay a $100 fine, which she adamantly refused. One argument that the defendant, Susan B. Anthony, had was that the fourteenth amendment said that all people born in the united states were citizens and that states could not infringe on their "privileges and immunities of citizens" which includes voting (as seen in the fifteenth amendment). However, the court argued that those only pertained to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as children were citizens but could not vote. Then, when faced with the fifteenth amendment the court said that since nowhere in the amendment is sex listed, women's right to vote was not protected.

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