Why did Susan B. Anthony want to vote?

Answer 1

Susan B. Anthony cast an illegal vote in 1872 because she wanted to prove that women were citizens.

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In 1872 women were still disenfranchised (couldn't vote) in most of the USA. In their 1871 convention, the National Woman Suffrage Association decided to encourage their members to attempt to vote and when refused, to appeal their denial under the 14th Amendment. Section 1 of that amendment says, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The legal argument was pretty sound and by creating a conflict where a case could be established and decided in the courts, they hoped to get a ruling that women were citizens and thus were entitled to vote. Unfortunately the strategy failed due to some creative legal wranglings like finding Ms. Anthony guilty of illegally casting a vote and then not enforcing the penalty so that she couldn't have grounds to appeal.

Answer 2

Don't take me word for it but I think it was because women weren't aloud to vote and I guess she did somehow. Please if your writing an essay don't use this, this is what I think it is. I really don't want you to be miserable for a low grade because you got some fact wrong.

Answer 3

She voted in order to try to force the issue of the disenfranchisement of women. She hoped to use her expected arrest to contest the legality and constitutionality of denying women the right to vote. She did get arrested but then the authorities chose not to enforce the punishment in order to prevent her from having enough grounds to file a dispute of the verdict.

Answer 4

Susan B Anthony wanted to vote because she thought that every woman had the right to vote

Answer 5

Susan b Anthony voted illegally in 1872.