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 United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The full Declaration was rewritten somewhat in general session prior to its adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House.
Some historians believe that the Declaration was used as a propaganda tool, in which the Americans tried to establish clear reasons for their rebellion that might persuade reluctant colonists to join them and establish their just cause to foreign governments that might lend them aid.
It was the model for the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments.
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 Declaration of Sentiments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Declaration of Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known to historians as the 1848 Women's Rights Convention.
The principal author of the Declaration of Sentiments was Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Sentiments followed the form of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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 Declaration of Sentiments: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Declaration of Sentiments is a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, EHandler: no quick summary.
The Sentiments followed the form of the United States Declaration of Independence[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
The principal author of the Declaration of Sentiments was Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton quick summary:
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 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions: Stanton and Anthony Papers Project Online
The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention, was then read by E. Stanton.
The propriety of obtaining the signatures of men to the Declaration was discussed in an animated manner: a vote in favor was given; but concluding that the final decision would be the legitimate business of the next day, it was referred.
Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they -live, that they may no longer publish their degradation, by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
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 Declaration of Sentiments
Resolved, that woman is man’s equal, was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such.
Resolved, that the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
Resolved, that inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superiority, it is preeminently his duty to encourage her to speak and teach, as she has an opportunity, in all religious assemblies.
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 The Declaration of Sentiments
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was drafted by
Based on the American Declaration of Independence, the Sentiments demanded equality with men before the law, in education and employment.
that the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
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 The Declaration of Sentiments - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
The public release of the Declaration of Sentiments triggered dialog among many women also interested in equal rights and womens' suffrage.
The Declaration was also met with strong criticism and anger.
The Declaration is one of the roots of the suffrage movement that ultimately resulted the 19th Amendment being added to the Constitution.
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 Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
The delegates adopted a statement, deliberately modeled on the Declaration of Inde-pendence, as well as a series of resolu-tions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that kept women in an inferior status.
Very little in the way of progress came from the Seneca Falls Declaration, although it would serve for the next seventy years as the goal for which the suffrage movement strove.
Women's suffrage and nearly all of the other reforms of this era were swallowed up by the single issue of slavery and its abolition, and women did not receive the right to vote until the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920.
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To such a length was this principle extended, that they were not even left to their own discretion — to admit the validity of the argument which I might have adduced, however cogent and forcible they might have found them to be, and even if they had been altogether unanswerable.
First, I was afraid that if I had made a profession of my sentiments, the consequence would have been, that an inquiry would be instituted on the part of others, with regard to the manner in which an action might be framed against me from those premises.
These then are the causes which are offered why the advocates of these sentiments labor with a common anxiety to retain the purity of such a doctrine in their churches and why they oppose themselves to all those innovations which are at variance with them.
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 Documents from: A History of the American Suffragist Movement, © The Moschovitis Group, Inc.
The Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention
The Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
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 demand of little account in man.
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 REPORT of the WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
The Declaration of Sentiments, offered for the acceptance of the Convention, was then read by E. A proposition was made to have it re-read by paragraph, and after much consideration, some changes were suggested and adopted.
The reading of the Declaration was called for, an addition having been inserted since the morning session.
Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation, by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, not their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
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 Declaration of Sentiments
As the convention was to assemble in three days, the time was short for such productions; but having no experience in the modus operandi of getting up conventions, nor in that kind of literature, they were quite innocent of the herculean labors they proposed.
The reports of Peace, Temperance, and Anti-Slavery conventions were examined, but all alike seemed too tame and pacific for the inauguration of a rebellion such as the world had never before seen.
The Declaration having been freely discussed by many present, was re-read by Mrs.
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 Matilda Joslyn Gage Website 1848 Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions
The famous Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was signed by many of the attendees.
After much delay, one of the circle took up the Declaration of 1776, and read it aloud with much spirit and emphasis, and it was at once decided to adopt the historic document, with some slight changes such as substituting all men, for King George, &c.
That inasmuch as man, while claiming for himself intellectual superiority, does accord to woman moral superiority, it is pre-eminently his duty to encourage her to speak and teach, as she has an opportunity, in all religious assemblies.
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 Declaration of Sentiments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
In this Declaration of Sentiments, Stanton carefully enumerated areas of life where women were treated unjustly.
Eighteen was precisely the number of grievances America's revolutionary forefathers had listed in their Declaration of Independence from England.
Stanton's version read, "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.
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 1848 Declaration of Sentiments
The primary author of this document was Elizabeth Cady Stanton with the assistance of Lucretia Mott.
This "Declaration of Sentiments" the first formal action by women in the United States to gain civil rights and suffrage.
Women gained the federal guarantee of the vote in 1920 after 72 years of the largest civil rights movement in the history of the world.
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 Women and Language: The girls' declaration of sentiments.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Fifteen girls developed a Girls' Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, NY, in Jul 1998 which they presented at the Closing Ceremony of Celebrate '98.
The girls modeled their declaration on the Declaration of Sentiments developed by suffragists 150 years ago.
Fifteen girls, ages 8-18, created a Girls' Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 16-19, 1998.
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 Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments Compared   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments Compared
Note: Alterations to the Declaration of Independence in the Declaration of Sentiments are indicated with bold.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Seneca Falls: The Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Modern History Sourcebook: Seneca Falls: The Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to abolish slavery called together the first conference to address Women's rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
The Declaration of the Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society.
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 The American Anti-Slavery Society - Declaration of Sentiments, 1833   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The American Anti-Slavery Society - Declaration of Sentiments, 1833
We have met together for the achievement of an enterprise, without which that of our fathers is incomplete; and which, for its magnitude, solemnity, and probable results upon the destiny of the world, as far transcends theirs as moral truth does physical force.
With entire confidence in the overruling justice of God, we plant ourselves upon the Declaration of our Independence and the truths of Divine Revelation, as upon the Everlasting Rock.
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 American Writers: Declaration of Sentiments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
lizabeth Cady Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments at the first conference addressing women's rights which was held in Seneca Falls New York July 19-20, 1848.
The Declaration of Sentiments demands rights for women and that society acknowledge those rights.
It contained one amendment for women's suffrage which was passed by a narrow margin at the insistence of Stanton.
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 Amazon.com: Declaration of Sentiments (Little Books of Wisdom): Books: Elizabeth Cady Stanton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was largely responsible for the Declaration of Sentiments draft, prepared in advance and patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
On July 19, with Stanton and Mott presiding, women met alone to debate the Declaration (a statement of grievances), the propriety of male signators, and the merits of twelve resolutions (statements of principle).
Among the resolutions, only the suffrage claim met resistance; passing by a slim majority.
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 Declaration of Sentiments, Anti-Slavery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention
The Convention assembled in the city of Philadelphia, to organize a National Anti-Slavery Society, promptly seize the opportunity to promulgate the following Declaration of Sentiments, as cherished by them in relation in the enslavement of one-sixth portion of the American people.
Already a host is coming up to the help of the Lord against the mighty, and the prospect before us is full of encouragement.
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 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Grades 4-8 - By: Douglas Rife - Christianbook.com
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Grades 4-8 - By: Douglas Rife - Christianbook.com
Through an examination of the declaration written and signed at that conference and a variety of other activities, students will discover the impact of that event on their lives today.
Students will be amazed to discover the efforts it took over a period of more than 70 years to obtain the right to vote for women.
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Rights Speech
We have met To uplift woman's fallen divinity Upon an even pedestal with man's.
And, strange as it may seem to many, we now demand our right to vote according to the declaration of the government under which we live.
We need not prove ourselves equal to Daniel Webster to enjoy this privilege, for the ignorant Irishman in the ditch has all the civil rights he has.
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 The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions July 19, 1848, hosted by TnCrimLaw
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions July 19, 1848, hosted by TnCrimLaw
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Though Frances Wright, Ernestine Rose, and others had championed the cause of woman's rights early in the century, the immediate origin of the woman's rights movement of the midcentury was in the anti-slavery crusade.
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 1998 Declaration of Sentiments of the National Organization for Women
On this twelfth day of July, 1998, the delegates of the National Organization for Women gather in convention on the one hundred and fiftieth year of the women's rights movement.
Simultaneously, we are working with sister organizations to develop and pass a national women's equality act for the twenty-first century.
And we participate in and advance a global movement for women and demand that the United States join the overwhelming majority of nations of the world in ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women without reservations, declarations, or understandings that would weaken this commitment.
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 The Declaration of Sentiments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton for the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.
I liked this site because it gave information on who started and it listed the sentiments and the resolutions.
It was nice to see which issues were resolved.
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 Weekend Sunday (NPR): Declaration of Sentiments@ HighBeam Research
First Lady Hillary Clinton was in Seneca Falls, New York this past week, to mark the anniversary of the first women's rights convention.
Clinton challenged the country to finish the work begun in the summer of 1848 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Jane Hunt (ph), Mary Anne McClintock (ph), and Martha Wright (ph), who, using the Declaration of Independence as a framework, drafted a document to address the grievances of women.
This material is published under license from the publisher through ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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