In today’s society, women’s right to vote is indisputable, but in the late eighteen hundreds, it was the complete opposite. Susan Brownwell Anthony, a pioneer progresser of women’s suffrage, lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In her speech, On Women’s Right to Vote, Anthony advocates that women, who are also citizens, deserve to vote and not be punished for practicing a Constitutional right. She writes this speech to justify her reason for voting, and to persuade others to permit women to vote. In Anthony’s speech, she makes an authoritative appeal to the Preamble, making this reference she establishes credibility, ethos. By using this historical document, the audience starts to think back to what the foundation of America
