Despotism
Original Source:
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
"Internet
History Sourcebooks." Internet History Sourcebooks. N.p., n.d. Web.
8 Jan. 2014. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp>.
Definition*:
the rule of a despot; the exercise of absolute authority.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes."
"Sebastien-Roch
Nicolas De Chamfort Quote." Quonation. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
<http://quonation.com/quote/33655>.
Commentary:
In the original source, Stanton, on behalf of women in the United States at the time, writes that men ruled over women with absolute authority and that they have the a right, a duty, to change their situation, their government, to provide a better future for later generations of women. In the second source, De Chamfort states that the history of men under absolute authority has been recurring and can be disregarded, while the history of men with freedom, on the other hand, is noteworthy.
In the original source, Stanton, on behalf of women in the United States at the time, writes that men ruled over women with absolute authority and that they have the a right, a duty, to change their situation, their government, to provide a better future for later generations of women. In the second source, De Chamfort states that the history of men under absolute authority has been recurring and can be disregarded, while the history of men with freedom, on the other hand, is noteworthy.
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