"Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as He, His, Him, we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns She, Hers and Her, are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as He, why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as He?"

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About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American social reformer and central leader in the 19th-century women's rights movement. She helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and coauthored the Declaration of Sentiments.

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