Historical women’s rights innovator, Susan B. Anthony, in her speech, On Women’s Right to Vote, argues that in voting in a presidential election, she has committed no crime. She supports this claim through the use of the preamble of the Federal Constitution. Then she emphasizes on the statement that says, “We, the people of the United States,” and finally she speaks of the “disfranchisement of one entire half of the people,” in the government, speaking against the different oligarchies of it. Anthony’s purpose is not only to prove her innocence, but also to call the males out on their negligence to allow the women of the United States their constitutional, as well as God-given, rights. She adopts an accusatory, confident tone for the
