Declaration of Sentiments

Both the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments stress that integrity and respect are the essential elements of Freedom. They both also state that all are entitled to the rights of life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. The Declaration of Independence is however referring to men, that all men are created equal “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal” (Jefferson 518). The Declaration of Sentiments states that women are American citizens…

Exam 4 Essay The Declaration of Independence was being drafted by members of the Continental Congress when Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams. She was requesting that they “Remember the Ladies.” She felt that women’s influence should reach beyond the home, and that they should have independent power to make their own choices regarding their lives and wellbeing. Adams was privately petitioning her husband, and she wanted him to, in turn petition on the behalf of women. She was…

that in the declaration of sentiments women were convinced that they were not treated equally as compared with men and they have to change this thought. The reason of declaration of sentiments is The most significant document to call for the promotion of women in nineteenth-century America, the Declaration of sentiments was made famous and quiet convincing at the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on 19 and 20 July 1848. The Declaration of Sentiments, document…

In “the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Seneca Falls Conference” society exemplifies a blind eye on the cultural, political, religious, and economic disparities between genders. Elizabeth Cady Stanton speaks to the audience of men, the government, and the patriarchal society who feel they are free and equal regardless of others around them not having the same luxury. Up to the present time in “the history of mankind,” there has been a pattern of a patriarchal society where man had…

July”, and “Declaration of Sentiments”, there were many circumstances where slavery was documented as described as horrible and unjust. Slavery is something that was very common in the eighteen hundreds but was something that not everyone wanted. Everyone did not believe in the right to hold other people as property. There were many conflicts at that time about this because some people were for slavery while others were against slavery. While I do not…

In the Declaration of Sentiments, Stanton notes that the attitude of men: “He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master- the law giving him power to deprive her liberty, and to administer chastisement” (Declaration of Sentiment). Women feel owned and…

I’ve told her multiple times, that she needs to change her eating habits, but she was settled on the thought that she is eating a moderate amount. The government also felt that the American society was exceptional during the release of the Declaration of Sentiments. Throughout history, men have fabricated society to their preferences, which withheld any power or correlation towards women. Which compelled Elizabeth Cady Stanton to demand change in the…

After talking about the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions in class I realized that I overlooked the LGBT+ community in regards to the article. I had not thought of how if the article was being inclusive of LGBT+ it would have said “all humans are created equal” rather than men and women. Limiting these rights to men and women excludes the many people who don't identify as either. I clearly still have a lot to learn regarding the LGBT+ community and I am looking forward to gaining more…

The conference, known as the “Declaration of Sentiments”, held in 1848 and was signed by sixty women and thirty-two men. One interesting thing about the “declaration of Sentiments” was the fact that the resolutions were presented to participants in the same month the America’s Declaration of Independence was declared. (Stanton). In addition to this, it was also fashioned after the Declaration of Independence which asserted the equality of all men and women; endowment…

and Elizabeth Cady Stanton changed the course of American history forever. Standing before a crowd of almost two hundred women, Stanton read aloud the document she had prepared. The “Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances” or the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” was structurally based on the Declaration of Independence, but had one key difference: it called for women to be given the same unalienable rights as men. On the steps of Wesleyan Chapel, the first-ever women’s rights…