What Was the Argument About Woman Suffrage Advanced by the New

question 23

Multiple Choice

What was the argument about woman suffrage advanced by the New Departure theory of the suffrage movement?

• A) The right to privacy undergirded women's right to vote, but a constitutional amendment would be advantageous.
• B) Women were persons under the Fourteenth Amendment and thus, as citizens, had the right to vote.
• C) Women over the age of twenty-one were adults, and all American adults had a fundamental right to vote.
• D) The best way for women to win the right to vote was by petitioning Congress for an equal rights amendment.

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