Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy
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Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy was a 19th-century legal and political approach arguing that women already had the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution’s existing guarantees of citizenship and privileges, and thus should be allowed to register and cast ballots without a new suffrage amendment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Departure strategy in women's suffrage movement | 1 |
| Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy Context triple: [Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case, associatedWith, Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy]
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Organization of the League of Women Voters
"Organization of the League of Women Voters" is a work by suffragist leader Carrie Chapman Catt that outlines the founding principles, structure, and goals of the League of Women Voters in the United States.
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United States v. Susan B. Anthony
United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the landmark 1873 federal criminal case in which suffragist Susan B. Anthony was prosecuted and convicted for illegally voting, spotlighting the legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States.
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History of Woman Suffrage
History of Woman Suffrage is a multi-volume historical work documenting the origins, development, and key figures of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
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Winning Plan for woman suffrage
Winning Plan for woman suffrage was Carrie Chapman Catt’s strategic blueprint that coordinated state and federal campaigns to secure women’s voting rights in the United States, culminating in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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The Enfranchisement of Women
The Enfranchisement of Women is an influential 1851 feminist essay advocating for women's political rights and legal equality, often associated with early liberal feminism in Britain.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy Target entity description: Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy was a 19th-century legal and political approach arguing that women already had the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution’s existing guarantees of citizenship and privileges, and thus should be allowed to register and cast ballots without a new suffrage amendment.
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A.
Organization of the League of Women Voters
"Organization of the League of Women Voters" is a work by suffragist leader Carrie Chapman Catt that outlines the founding principles, structure, and goals of the League of Women Voters in the United States.
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B.
United States v. Susan B. Anthony
United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the landmark 1873 federal criminal case in which suffragist Susan B. Anthony was prosecuted and convicted for illegally voting, spotlighting the legal barriers to women's suffrage in the United States.
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C.
History of Woman Suffrage
History of Woman Suffrage is a multi-volume historical work documenting the origins, development, and key figures of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
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D.
Winning Plan for woman suffrage
Winning Plan for woman suffrage was Carrie Chapman Catt’s strategic blueprint that coordinated state and federal campaigns to secure women’s voting rights in the United States, culminating in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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E.
The Enfranchisement of Women
The Enfranchisement of Women is an influential 1851 feminist essay advocating for women's political rights and legal equality, often associated with early liberal feminism in Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
legal strategy
ⓘ
political strategy ⓘ women’s suffrage strategy ⓘ |
| aimedTo | secure women’s voting rights through constitutional interpretation ⓘ |
| associatedLeader | Elizabeth Cady Stanton ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
American women’s rights movement
ⓘ
linked to:
women's rights movement
American women’s suffrage movement ⓘ
linked to:
women's suffrage movement
|
| associatedOrganization | National Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ |
| basedOnDocument | United States Constitution ⓘ |
| category |
history of voting rights in the United States
ⓘ
legal history of the United States ⓘ women’s legal history in the United States ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | a test of the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | pursuit of a separate women’s suffrage amendment ⓘ |
| coreClaim |
no additional constitutional amendment was needed to enfranchise women
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women already possessed the right to vote as U.S. citizens ⓘ |
| emergedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| emergedInDecade | 1870s ⓘ |
| geographicFocus |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasMainProponent | Susan B. Anthony ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
demonstrated limits of using existing constitutional text to win women’s suffrage
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helped shift suffrage strategy toward a dedicated constitutional amendment ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Reconstruction-era debates over citizenship and rights
ⓘ
post–Civil War constitutional amendments ⓘ |
| invokedAmendment |
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
ⓘ
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
linked to:
Fourteenth Amendment
|
| legalOutcome | rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| legalTheory |
citizenship implies suffrage
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voting is a privilege or immunity of national citizenship ⓘ |
| notableTestCase | Susan B. Anthony’s 1872 attempt to vote in Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| opposedBy | courts interpreting suffrage as a state-granted privilege ⓘ |
| politicalGoal | women’s suffrage in the United States ⓘ |
| preceded | campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| relatedCase | Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
constitutional suffrage
ⓘ
test-case litigation ⓘ |
| reliedOnClause |
Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
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linked to:
Privileges and Immunities Clause
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| reliedOnConcept | national citizenship ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
Susan B. Anthony’s arrest for illegal voting in 1872
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United States v. Susan B. Anthony ⓘ |
| SupremeCourtHolding |
citizenship did not automatically include the right to vote
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the Constitution did not confer a right of suffrage upon anyone ⓘ |
| tactic |
encouraging women to attempt to register and vote
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using test cases to challenge voting restrictions in court ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence | early 1870s ⓘ |
| usedBy | women attempting to register to vote in the 1870s ⓘ |
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linked to: Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy