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Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under charge for the suspected crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that by voting, I committed no crime. Instead, I simply exercised my citizen's rights, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any state to deny.

The preamble of the Federal Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." This was created by the people. Not just the white male citizens. And we formed it, to gain the blessings of liberty. This was not meant to be for only some of the people, but the whole people. This includes women as well as men. It is disrespectful to talk to women about the liberty that they cannot have. They are denied the use of a ballot in a democratic
government.

The government cannot make the right to vote based on being male or female. This is a violation of the supreme law of the land. Currently, freedom is being withheld from women. This is not a democracy. It is an aristocracy where the lower class is being overlooked. We are being considered the lowest class because we are women. The rich are controlling the poor. Several makes of dictionaries, including Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen 7 to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. Why then are women unable to vote? Why then am I being charged with a crime because I voted?

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any ofour opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall shorten their privileges. Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void.


31. Compare and contrast Anthony’s definition of a person to the government’s definition of a person. Include two details from the passage to support your response

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Answer:During the 1800s, women did not have the right to vote and were denied many other rights held by men. Susan B. Anthony was a prominent leader in the women's rights movement. She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association, which advocated for giving women the right to vote.

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In November 1872, Anthony voted in the presidential election. Two weeks later, she was arrested. After her indictment, Anthony gave her famous On Womens Right to Vote speech. In the speech, Anthony invoked the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, pointing out that it addresses We, the people, and not We, the male citizens. She argued that those countries that denied women the right to vote were oligarchies. At the end, she challenged her detractors to answer this question: Are women persons?

During her trial, Anthony was unable to testify on her behalf, since womens testimony was not considered to be competent. Instead, her lawyer presented her arguments. She was convicted of casting an illegal vote and fined $100. Anthony refused to pay the fine, stating, May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

The trial allowed Anthony to disseminate her arguments in support of women's suffrage to a much larger audience. Her speech and her continued advocacy for women's rights paved the way for Congress eventual ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which finally gave women the right to vote.

31.Anthony’s speech helps students understand the Constitution as a living document. She uses a variety of techniques of legal reasoning and interpretation to challenge other, exclusionary uses of the document. She bases an argument for change on an interpretation of a founding document.

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https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/anthony-is-it-a-crime-for-a-u-s-citizen-to-vote-3-april-1873/

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