Read the excerpt from "On Women’s Right to Vote” by Susan B. Anthony.Webster, Worcester, and Bouvier all define a citizen to be a person in the United States, entitled to vote and hold office. The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Hence, every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several states is today null and void, precisely as is every one against Negroes.
Anthony uses deductive reasoning by applying a general rule to women: if women are persons, then they qualify as citizens, and citizens are entitled to the relevant rights. She argues that women are persons, so they are citizens and state laws denying them those rights are invalid. This moves from general principles to a conclusion about a specific group, rather than building a general rule from examples.
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