Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. While there were stirrings for the right of women to vote in the early nineteenth century, the cause took on a new seriousness with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. There, Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed that the convention’s Declaration of Sentiments—modeled on the aspirations of the Declaration of Independence—include the demand for women’s suffrage. Which word best describes the tone of the passage?