In 1849, during the Seneca Falls Convention held in New York, women’s suffrage activist, Elizabeth C. Stanton, presented the “Declaration of Sentiments” in which she insists that American women should be immediately granted full citizenship and the rights they are entitled to. As an attempt, she support this claim by reminding her readers that the American "Declaration of Independence" recognizes the inalienable rights to life, liberty and happiness to women,as well as their right to have a say in how they are governed, and she provides a catalog of abuses showing that women are unable to exercise their right to self- determination because men have established an absolute tyranny over them. Stantons unyielding purpose is to awaken a sense of
