considered quite radical for her time and voiced her opinion in “Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizen” written in 1791. Though the declaration is addressed to the queen, de Gouges aimed to appeal to enlightenment philosophers and men a swell. Her work on Women’s right became an international phenomenon and inspired fellow feminist like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to pick up the torch and write their own declaration of liberty. Women should not have been denied equal rights such
Obligations to Society A government only works out properly if both the government and its people being governed dedicate themselves into building a successful government. Without the individuals being governed, the government itself would be nothing but a bunch of people fighting for power. So, we find ourselves asking what an individuals duty is to the government is and what the governments duty to the individual is. Throughout the years, people have argued this very question. An individuals
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was, no doubt, one of the most important activists for the women’s rights movement in the nineteenth century. Not only was she the leading advocate for women’s rights, she was also the “principal philosopher” of the movement . Some even considered her the nineteenth-century equivalent of Mary Wollstonecraft, who was the primary British feminist in the eighteenth century . Stanton won her reputation of being the chief philosopher and the “most consistent and daring liberal thinker”