Select the correct answer.

What argument is Susan B. Anthony making in the passage?

A.

Male citizens created the laws to secure the rights of men, so legal reform is required to secure women's rights.

B.

Women are often punished for committing criminal acts that are pardoned when committed by men.

C.

Women are judged under laws supposedly written only for males, so they are entitled to the same rights as males.

D.

The judge modified the original documents to arrest and try Anthony unfairly.

option "C" is the correct answer I presume.

Explanation:

The argument that Susan B. Anthony is making in the above passage is:

Women are judged under laws supposedly written only for males, so they are entitled to the same rights as males.

Susan B. Anthony was put under trial under the US government for actively participating to vote in the elections. She was an active leader of the woman suffrage movement. She gave the famous speech Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? In which she put her arguments related to the discrimination which the women were facing because of men. She argues that the law has been made by the men and the pronouns used in the written laws too constitute of the masculine. Women, on the other hand, have never been included while framing these laws. But if a woman is found guilty, she becomes liable to follow the laws made by the men. She also talks about her reason for being put in trial. Her crime as per the law of the government was that she wanted to exercise the right to vote which is a woman she was prohibited from. She tells about the Hippocratic nature of the men and the judicial system. Her warrant included the masculine pronouns but the clerk of court made some changes in it. He altered the masculine pronouns to that of the feminine. Her final argument was that if women were liable to get punished as men under the laws made by men, then equal rights should be imparted to women.