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Speech Outline2 Whitney

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Comments:

Michale Chiang: I liked the confident and solid tone you gave throughout your speech. However i think the pace of your speech was a little fast. I also liked your hand motions to show us the main points that you are pointing out. Good visual aid. I like how you used the black background with a picture - it made the picture stand out a lot. Also, I liked the blank slides that you used to bring back the attention fromt he ppt to you. Good speech!

Michael McKenna: You had excellent voice inflection and your delivery showed you were highly interested in your topic. Your ideas were well thought out and supported. Good job.

Liza McKenna: Showing the actual poster was a great idea. You had really good projection with your voice and made a really strong comparison of women to slaves. Work on looking up for longer periods of time though. Good work!

Joe Belack - You had great knowledge of the topic, and you were very clear in all of your vocab and word choice. You were a little fast at times, but the entire time we could still keep up. Your use of allegory and facts were nice touches as well. You speech was overall a very solid and knowledgable speech.

Christina- Great tone and volume. You used good gestures as well. Your eye contact was pretty good but it could have been a litte better. Great speech though.

Liz Peters: Great speech Whitney! I really liked your introduction, it caught my attention. In between transition and when you were regrouping you too a break instead of using fillers which was a good choice. I also liked how you used a repetition example to get your point across.

Scot Brown: Good use of visuals, but there was a little too much summary of the speech.

Whitney Trompeter

Speech 2

I) Introduction

a) Attention Getter: This is the poster announcing Susan B. Anthony’s arrest and trial. Susan looks more like a character from the Wild West who robbed a bank and has the sheriff after her, not like a woman who has merely voted.

b) Credibility: After researching the life of Susan B. Anthony as a prominent activist, I delved into the persuasions of her speech and its connection to her defense in her trial.

c) Background: According to the website on the Case of the United States vs. Susan B. Anthony, Anthony was charged with “knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote” in the 1872 Presidential election (Linder, 2001).

i) Anthony’s defense was that 1) “she was legally entitled to vote”. 2) “That if she was not so entitled, but voted in good faith in the belief that it was her right, she was guilty of no crime”. And 3) “That she did vote in such good faith, and with such belief”.

ii) To quote Anthony’s Lawyer, Judge Henry Seldon, “The only alleged ground of illegality of the defendant’s vote is that she is a woman.” He goes on to say that the act of voting done by a man is considered honorable, not criminal (Linder, 2001).

d) Thesis: Anthony’s speech was not only used to defend her rights as a U.S. citizen, but also to inform the nation of the injustice of her sentence, and support her claims using direct phrasing from the U.S. Constitution.

e) Preview of speech: Anthony’s speech used parallels between the persons described as having the right to vote in the 15th amendment to the description of women, as well as many judicial documents and political speeches as her logos for her argument.

f) Transition: Anthony used parallels to enhance her claim that she believed she was entitled to vote and did so in good faith.

2) Body

a) Point 1: Anthony argued that women fell under the category of those described in the 15th amendment, which stated that citizens should not be denied their vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (Anthony, 1872).

i) She first compared the married woman’s servitude to her husband to the slave’s servitude to his master.

(1) Anthony referred to the state constitution of Georgia, where a slave belonged to his master. If the slave was defiant, the master could use correction. If the slave tried to run away, the master could also use correction to bring the slave back.

(2) Like slaves, a woman belonged to her husband. If she was defiant, the husband could use correction. If she tried to leave, the husband could use correction to bring her back (Anthony, 1872).

(3) Like slaves whose earnings belonged to their master, a wife’s earnings belonged to her husband.

(4) Like slaves whose children belonged to their master, a wife’s child belonged to her husband.

(5) Like slaves who were not allowed to own property, a married woman was not allowed to own property.

(6) Like slaves, women were powerless under the common law.

(a) Our laws were developed based on the old English Common law, which was written by Sir William Blackstone.

(i) Blackstone was quoted saying, “Husband and wife are one and that one is the husband” (Roxanne, 1990).

(7) Since this was inevitably the case, how could women not be considered under a “condition of servitude” (Anthony, 1872)?

(8) And since women were under a present “condition of servitude”, how could they not be allowed to vote according to the 15th amendment?

ii) Anthony further compared the masculine pronouns used in the 15th amendment to the same masculine pronouns used in the constitution for taxes and for penalties for law violations (Anthony, 1872).

(1) If he, him, and his allowed women to pay taxes and be tried under criminal proceedings, why then did these pronouns not allow women to vote?

(2) Why then could Anthony be prosecuted under the Constitution for voting, but not be allowed to vote under the Constitution?

iii) These parallels are undeniable concrete evidence that Anthony’s actions were perfectly legal and that Anthony thoroughly believed this at the time she cast her ballot.

iv) Transition: Anthony didn’t just leave parallel reasoning to suffice for itself, although it was valid and complete.

b) Point 2: Anthony used judicial documents as well as quotes from prominent male politicians to boost her logos and support her arguments on women citizenship and the right to vote.

i) Anthony repeatedly quoted the U.S. constitution and state constitutions to show that, by law, women were citizens and equal to men.

ii) Here in just an example of one page in Anthony’s speech, allowing you to see how many judicial quotes actually support the woman’s right to vote.

(1) This shows that Anthony did just find a few quotes that happened to go along with her argument, but many relevant artifacts fully supporting her reasoning.

iii) I’m sure all of you are familiar with the line from the Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” (Declaration, 1776).

iv) In light of the Declaration of Independence, Anthony commented, “It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed this Union…women as well as men” (Anthony, 1872).

v) Women not only helped form the country, but also had to abide by the laws like everyone else.

(1) It is for this reason that Anthony quoted James Madison, “It seems indispensable that the mass of the citizens should not be without a voice in making the laws which they are to obey, and in choosing the magistrate who are to administer them” (Anthony, 1872).

(2) This direct statement referring to citizens and the right to vote allowed Anthony to make specific logical appeals.

(a) A citizen is defined in the first sentence of the 14th amendment as, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United State and of the state wherein they reside” (XIV Amendment, 1866).

(b) From these judicial and political artifacts, Anthony says that women are people, all people born in the United States are citizens, so therefore, women born in the United States are citizens and since all citizens are given the right to vote, women have the right to vote.

(3) There are no fallacies in this appeal.

(4) Transition: All logic and reason support that women have the inalienable right to vote whether it is acknowledged or not.

3) Conclusion: When these facts are brought forth, Anthony was clearly in her legal rights to cast a ballot in the 1872 election.

i) The Constitution is constantly being interpreted and understood in different ways.

(1) The New York Times dubbed Anthony the premier philosopher for American Feminists due to her political parallels and reasoning on women and their legal right to vote (Gornick, 1981).

(2) Anthony proved that women were guaranteed the same rights as men with the argument that all masculine pronouns were used to mean all persons for everything except voting and by demonstrating that the wording the 15th amendment could also very well describe the condition of women at the time.

(3) Anthony’s logic was supported by the Constitution and many speeches made by admired politicians.

(4) Through parallel reasoning and logical appeals, Anthony’s speech was very effective and supported that she was, in fact, not guilty of a crime.