Term Paper on "Bill of Rights (Civil Liberties) in 1787"

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Third of all, the sexist view of the manly society of the 19th century was that the women were less intelligent and less prepared than men to face the vote and that they were less capable of casting a sensible vote.

In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the American Equal Rights Association, supporting "suffrage for everyone, regardless of race, color, or sex." Subsequently, two important societies were formed in support of the women's right to vote.

One of them was National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, while the other was the American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone. The former perceived the fight for the right to vote at federal level, with a federal approach residing in change to the 15th Amendment. The latter believed that the right to vote could be easier implemented at state level and then expanded to the entire country. In 1890, the two associations merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Elizabeth Stanton.

Their actions, especially the National Woman Suffrage Association's demands, radicalized as they demanded the right to vote. Elizabeth Stanton attempted to vote in the 1872 presidential election, but was arrested for voting illegally. However, she had made her point: the trial was a popular event that brought the women vote issue in front of the public eye. The suffragist problem was no longer something that could be ignored or simply hidden away. The women's determination had also reached impressive quotas: Stanton ended her speech at the trial with the slogan: "Resistance to Tyranny Is Obedience to God." She was fined for the illegal voting.

The turn of the century saw the apparition of a new wave of fighters and believers in the women's right to vote. Women like Chapman Catt and Maud Wood Park, not to mention Stanton's daughter, Harriot E. Bleach, used their dedication and commitment to push further the process. Some of them believed that they would have better chances to succeed if they appealed to a certain category of women. Chapman Catt, for example received support from middle-class women, while Lucy Burns or Alice Paul turned to working women and radical movements in their efforts. A subsequent radicalization of the movement followed, with demonstrations and alternative forms of protest, such as chaining oneself to the White House fence. Hunger strikes in jail… READ MORE