Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Ritz Crackeres. —“On Women’s Right to Vote,” Susan B. Anthony How does Susan B. Anthony connect with the emotions of women in this passage? answer: by mentioning state constitutions by mentioning the idea that women are not people by mentioning Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier by mentioning the rights of African Americans
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