The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions that was announced at the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls was a declaration that women are to be treated equally with men all around the world. After the declaration was announced it was to be “binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times”. What was declared was, according to Blackstone, “Dictated by God himself”, and should be taken very seriously.
A main point of the declaration was that God created mankind to be equal. God is mentioned heavily throughout the reading in the sense that what they were speaking about had a strong religious undertone to it. In the Declaration of Sentiments it was said that, “When, in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course”. In other words, this declaration was to enforce the “laws of nature” that God himself intended, and to no obey the rules would be going against what God wanted.
Another main point was to acknowledge how women had been treated by men in history, so that they could move forward and treat women fairly and equally. The points that were mentioned, and along with the statement that “women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights” finished out the declaration by asking for women to have “immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens”.
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