Benjamin Weisner
2/2/2011
Shaw
Blog 4
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
On July 19th 1848 was the women’s rights Convention at Seneca Falls and the purpose of this was to work on there Declaration of sentiments and resolutions to see if it would be accepted by the convention that was there. After the Declaration was read there were additions that must be made to it. “Resolved, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.” Women should have the same rights as man and never be below men.
When it comes to the most important paragraph in this Declaration of Sentiments that was resolved. “Resolved, therefore, That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause, by every righteous means; and especially in regard to the great subjects of morals and religion, it is self-evidently her right to participate with her brother in teaching them, both in private and in public, by writing and by speaking, by any instrumentalities proper to be used, and in any assemblies proper to be held; and this being a self-evident truth, growing out of the divinely implanted principles of human nature, any custom or authority adverse to it, whether modern or wearing the hoary sanction of antiquity, is to be regarded as self-evident falsehood, and at war with the interests of mankind.” this was important in its time for women to establish themselves in respects to there husbands and friends. This is an important time for women when many were working to enjoy the rights that many men enjoyed living in America at that time.
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