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Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration of Sentiments. Signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at Seneca Falls Convention. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, listing the grievances (complaints) of women.

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Declaration of Sentiments

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  1. Declaration of Sentiments • Signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at Seneca Falls Convention. • Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, listing the grievances (complaints) of women. • “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”

  2. 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. • Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

  3. Declaration of Sentiments • The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

  4. Ahhh, but ladies… • The frailty of women makes them unsuited for voting. Her physical weakness is potentially dangerous, they might get tired out traveling to the poll. Once a woman arrived she would have to mingle among the crowds of men who gather around the polls and to press her way through them to the ballot box. Assuming she reached the polling place, she might get caught in a brawl and given women's natural fragility, she would be the one to get hurt.

  5. Declaration of Sentiments • He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.

  6. Ahhh, but ladies… • An area of difference between men and women is the issue of morality. The most convincing reason that women should vote was the one offered by Miss Pearson 'we want the ballot, and we want it when we want it.” If this is how one woman is going to react, how will the rest of them act if they are given the right to vote? It is the old story of woman - Eve she got it and we've had trouble ever since.

  7. Declaration of Sentiments • He has compelled her to submit to law in the formation of which she had no voice.

  8. Ahhh, but ladies… • Women are intellectually inferior and cannot make educated decisions. Women do not have the intellectual capacity of men because their brains are smaller and more delicate. A woman's thought process is less equipped to handle logical progressions than are men. For example, a woman's mind arrives at a conclusions based on incomplete evidence. While women's minds seem to move in curves and circles, following lines more beautiful, perhaps, but irregular and disconcerting, men's minds seem to move along in a straight line.

  9. Declaration of Sentiments • He has withheld from her rights, which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men, both natives and foreigners.

  10. Ahhh, but ladies… • Women can hide extra ballots in their voluminous sleeves, and slip them quickly into the ballot at once.

  11. Declaration of Sentiments • He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

  12. Ahhh, but ladies… • Men are rational and emotionally stable, women are high strung, tense, irritable, and potentially irrational. Their delicate emotional equilibrium could easily upset by a strain-like voting. A doctor has declared that he could not shut his eyes to the fact that there is mixed up with the women's movement much mental disorder.

  13. Declaration of Sentiments • After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government, which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. .

  14. Ahhh, but ladies… • If women were allowed to vote, they would become more masculine. In addition, men would become more effeminate. Giving women the vote is a shirking rather than a sharing of responsibility, and therefore a resignation of manhood. Woman suffrage will produce a nation of transvestites

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