
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was a document created to protect/create womens rights. The document was written at the first womens rights convention in Seneca Falls. At the convention both men and women attended convention. the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was based off the United States Declaration of Independence. In the document their was a list a sentiments, examples:
He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.
He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men - both natives and foreigners.
The document also included a list of resolutions for the sentitments, examples:
Resolved, That all laws which prevent woman from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.
Resolved, That woman is man's equal— was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such.
Resolved, That the women of this country ought to be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was the first of its kind and was a major step in the future of womens rights.