{"id":2384,"date":"2017-06-17T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2017-06-17T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:49:32","slug":"144-years-ago-today-june-17-1873-susan-b-anthony-stands-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"144 Years Ago Today – June 17, 1873. Susan B. Anthony Stands Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On June 17, 1873 in Canandaigua, New York the trial of Susan B. Anthony began. The prosecution charged that on November 5, 1872, in the first district of the Eighth Ward of Rochester, New York, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the United States election, which included the election for members of Congress. The women had successfully registered to vote several days earlier. A poll watcher challenged Anthony\u2019s qualification as a voter. The inspectors of election took the steps required by state law when a challenge occurred: they asked Anthony under oath if she was a citizen, if she lived in the district, and if she had accepted bribes for her vote. Following her satisfactory answers to these questions, the inspectors placed her ballots in the boxes.<\/p>\n

Anthony believed that the Fourteenth Amendment, which defined U.S. citizenship, protected a woman\u2019s right to vote. She\u00a0reasoned that the rights of U.S. citizenship, or, in constitutional language, \u201cthe privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States,\u201d included the right to vote. If the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s definition of U.S. citizenship included women, and the states were barred from depriving U.S. citizens of the privileges and immunities of citizenship, it followed that states could not exclude women from the electorate.<\/p>\n

After three days of trial the court decided otherwise. She was found guilty and ordered to pay a fine of $100. When asked if she had anything to say she replied:<\/p>\n

\u201cMay it please your honor I shall never pay a penny of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt incurred by the publishing of my paper, The Revolution, whose sole object of which was to educate all women to\u2026rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony was released from jail. The fine was never paid.<\/p>\n

For more information about the trial and its results log onto:\u00a0http:\/\/ecssba.rutgers.edu\/docs\/sbatrial.html<\/a>\u00a0and learn more about this courageous woman who paved the way for our political freedom today.<\/p>\n

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