When people learn that someone has been to prison, they normally assume that the person is immoral, but what if the law that had been broken was immoral? Ideally, a law’s purpose is to keep order and ensure the rights of citizens, but at what point does that law stop protecting the rights of individuals and start being punitive for punishment’s sake? One such group on the receiving end of some of these laws is women. While granting equal rights to women may seem like the obvious choice, many people disagree. One instance of this is American women being denied the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. The battle over voting rights was not won easily. One of the reasons that women have been able to gain the right
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Of those twelve, only one was not passed unanimously. The resolution that was met with opposition stated, "it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was one of the people who supported the resolution having to do with voting rights, and it was his support that helped convince many people attending the convention to change their minds on the subject. Because the resolution was passed, the women’s rights movement lost some supporters who believed the notion of women voting to be too radical. In addition to this, many people who were opposed to women voting did not take the convention seriously, even though women could vote in several other states and territories. Despite the ridicule, the suffrage moment began to gain popularity, and conventions for women’s rights began to be held annually, though men who were opposed to the women’s rights movement often disrupted them. The convention lasted two days and had about three hundred attendees, but it marked the start of the women’s rights moment and helped change the course of history. Though the Seneca Falls Convention greatly impacted the women’s right movement, these changes did not happen overnight. It was not until twenty-four years later that one of the most important events in the Suffragist movement took
Of those twelve, only one was not passed unanimously. The resolution that was met with opposition stated, "it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was one of the people who supported the resolution having to do with voting rights, and it was his support that helped convince many people attending the convention to change their minds on the subject. Because the resolution was passed, the women’s rights movement lost some supporters who believed the notion of women voting to be too radical. In addition to this, many people who were opposed to women voting did not take the convention seriously, even though women could vote in several other states and territories. Despite the ridicule, the suffrage moment began to gain popularity, and conventions for women’s rights began to be held annually, though men who were opposed to the women’s rights movement often disrupted them. The convention lasted two days and had about three hundred attendees, but it marked the start of the women’s rights moment and helped change the course of history. Though the Seneca Falls Convention greatly impacted the women’s right movement, these changes did not happen overnight. It was not until twenty-four years later that one of the most important events in the Suffragist movement took