Elizabeth Cady Stanton was just one of the many females that played a key role in the women’s rights movement. Although she did not develop her own rhetorical devices within her Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, she did make it very evident that her purpose was to make this declaration as effective as the Declaration of Independence was. She did this by modeling her declaration after the one Thomas Jefferson constructed. The Seneca Falls Convention was where the declaration was first discussed and presented. Instead of focusing on a new government separated from King George, she focused on a government that would equally include women into participation. Within this declaration Stanton lists out the grievances and injustices that
