Declaration of Sentiments quick write due in 48 hours
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TheDeclarationofSentiments.docxThe Declaration of Sentiments – After each quote explain what she’s really saying.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
What does she mean?
“He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”
What does she mean?
“He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”
What does she mean?
“He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men – both natives and foreigners.”
What does she mean?
“He has made her, if married, in the eyes of the law, civilly dead.”
What does she mean?
“He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed against her.”
What does she mean?
“He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated, but deemed of little account in man.”
What does she mean?
