Right To Vote Dbq

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Women were not allowed to vote in the nineteenth century. This was mainly due to opposing views sweeping America at that time, which were pushed forward by two well known political arguments-a report from the Senate's Committee on Priviledges and Elections and an address by Isabella Beecher Hooker. In 1878, the Senate Committee wrote a response to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote, stating the main reasons why women shouldn't be given the ability. Some of these reasons announced that female voters had no experience in political affairs, while being quite generally dependent upon the other sex and incapable of performing military duty. Without the power to enforce the laws they could create, what good …show more content…

Hooker states that women "pay taxes and bear equally ... all the burdens of society," just as men do; though they don't have the same rights. She uses the Constitution as a metaphorical link to point out that, "There is not a line in it, nor a word, forbidding women to vote." The constitution actually guarantees women the right to vote in the preamble; the statement, "We, The people of the United States," includes women who are, after all, people too. Women helped shape America during the revolution just as much as men did, but have been unnecessarily pushed to the back of people's minds for one reason: they fought with less bloodshed. This was as an unfortunate tendency because women want to establish justice and insure peace just as much, if not more than men do, but they were not given the …show more content…

As kindly as possible, they brought to attention that women are, "totally inexperienced in political affairs, quite generally dependent upon the other sex, and incapable of performing military duty." It's only a small minority of them who want to vote and they don't have, "the power to enforce the laws which their numerical numbers may enable them to make." It would be an injustice to impose these duties on a group of people who both couldn't care less and couldn't handle the burden. They also claimed that almost all the disabilities placed on women by the government have been taken away, with the exception of those that would be, "impairing or destroying the marriage relation." They claimed that women's conditions are always improving, not due to rebellion, but because to

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