Directions: Select ALL the correct answers. Which two statements from the passage best illustrate the central ideas?
Beginning with special grievances, woman's protests soon took a larger scope
The selfishness of man was readily enlisted in securing woman's civil rights
Woman's political equality with man is the legitimate outgrowth of the fundamental
principles of our Government.
She asked for a voice in the laws, a choice in the rulers, and protection in the
exercise of her rights as a citizen of the United States.
This has been clearly set forth in the Declaration of Independence, in the United
States Constitution, after prolonged debates on the origin of human rights in
1840, and in the more recent discussions of the party in power since 1865.