Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy

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legal strategy political strategy women’s suffrage strategy

Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy was a 19th-century legal and political approach arguing that women already had the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution’s existing guarantees of citizenship and privileges, and thus should be allowed to register and cast ballots without a new suffrage amendment.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	legal strategy ⓘ political strategy ⓘ women’s suffrage strategy ⓘ
aimedTo	secure women’s voting rights through constitutional interpretation ⓘ
associatedLeader	Elizabeth Cady Stanton NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedMovement	American women’s rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ American women’s suffrage movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedOrganization	National Woman Suffrage Association NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOnDocument	United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ
category	history of voting rights in the United States ⓘ legal history of the United States ⓘ women’s legal history in the United States ⓘ
characterizedAs	a test of the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment ⓘ
contrastedWith	pursuit of a separate women’s suffrage amendment ⓘ
coreClaim	no additional constitutional amendment was needed to enfranchise women ⓘ women already possessed the right to vote as U.S. citizens ⓘ
emergedInCentury	19th century ⓘ
emergedInDecade	1870s ⓘ
geographicFocus	United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainProponent	Susan B. Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalSignificance	demonstrated limits of using existing constitutional text to win women’s suffrage ⓘ helped shift suffrage strategy toward a dedicated constitutional amendment ⓘ
influencedBy	Reconstruction-era debates over citizenship and rights ⓘ post–Civil War constitutional amendments ⓘ
invokedAmendment	Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution NERFINISHED ⓘ
legalOutcome	rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett ⓘ
legalTheory	citizenship implies suffrage ⓘ voting is a privilege or immunity of national citizenship ⓘ
notableTestCase	Susan B. Anthony’s 1872 attempt to vote in Rochester, New York GENERATED ⓘ
opposedBy	courts interpreting suffrage as a state-granted privilege ⓘ
politicalGoal	women’s suffrage in the United States ⓘ
preceded	campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
relatedCase	Minor v. Happersett NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedConcept	constitutional suffrage ⓘ test-case litigation ⓘ
reliedOnClause	Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment NERFINISHED ⓘ
reliedOnConcept	national citizenship ⓘ
resultedIn	Susan B. Anthony’s arrest for illegal voting in 1872 ⓘ United States v. Susan B. Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ
SupremeCourtHolding	citizenship did not automatically include the right to vote ⓘ the Constitution did not confer a right of suffrage upon anyone ⓘ
tactic	encouraging women to attempt to register and vote ⓘ using test cases to challenge voting restrictions in court ⓘ
timePeriodOfProminence	early 1870s ⓘ
usedBy	women attempting to register to vote in the 1870s ⓘ

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Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case → associatedWith → Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy ⓘ

Minor v. Happersett → subjectOf → Susan B. Anthony’s New Departure strategy ⓘ

this entity surface form: New Departure strategy in women's suffrage movement