DOCUMENT F: Read and answer the questions thoroughly. (AP US History) WILL MARK BRAINLIEST FOR CORRECT ANSWE!

“Consider--I address you as a legislator--whether, when men contend for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness, it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are acting in the manner best calculated to promote their happiness? Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with himof the gift of reason?But if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from ù participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice and inconsistency, that they want reason, else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION will ever show thatman must, in some shape, act like a tyrant, and tyranny, in whatever part of society it rears its brazen front, will ever undermine morality. The adoption of this system of inequality never was the result of deliberation, or forethought, or any social ideas, or any notion whatever of what conduced to the benefit of humanity or the good order of society. It arose simply from the fact that from the very earliest twilight of human society, every woman (owing to the value attached to her by men, combined with her inferiority in muscular strength) was found in a state of bondage to some man...Under whatever conditions, and within whatever limits, men are admitted to the suffrage, there is not a shadow of justification for not admitting women under the same. ..”

Mary Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792)Marvin Perry, et al, Eds. Sources of the Western Tradition, 3rdEd., Vol. II: From the Renaissance to the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995.6.

What arguments does Wollstonecraft present for women’s rights? Which are most persuasive?