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Brittany Viloria
Robert Kane
English 115A mw
13 September 2016
Responses to For the Equal Rights Amendment
The authors name is Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, she talks about how equality for
both genders under the law isnt necessarily implied and if brought on, wouldnt actually solve
the problem of prejudices and discriminations under the Equal Rights Amendment according to
her opponents, however she believes the opposite is true.
She believes that the amendment is necessary to clarify countless ambiguities and
inconsistencies in our legal system, which, under the criminal penalties has often been brought
two or threefold to women than men, the acceptance of gender exclusion from public education,
and how marriage will affect what they are able to do and not. Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
claims that women are excluded from programs, businesses, rights, and the like that affect the
male counterpart in a positive way. As a political speech, she uses logos for her points on why
her argument is made and why her solution should come about, pathos in order to salvage her
dream and Americas original dream in her second to last paragraph, The Constitution they
wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black
Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late
to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so, in order to greatly
move the people to take action on what is currently happening in the imbalance of rights and
freedoms. Ethos is able to be conveyed through her speech as she is the first African American

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women elected to the United States Congress, she is the first major party Black candidate to run
for president, as it already gives her a form of authority, being the first she is.
Her major points include: legal discrimination in cases of social and economic standings
between not just of color but of race. In her stance, she believes that the amendment is necessary
to clarify many unbalanced things in the current legal system between races, genders, and
socioeconomic grievances. People may say that the amendment would make things a lot more
confusing, however she says it is straightforward in order to negate the influence of those whose
legislative changes in the direction of many groups and activities of certain people. There will be
better jobs for women if the equal rights amendment was fixed again, due to the restrictions on
jobs. Everyone should be liable no matter what they are for anything, to do anything, and to
become anything.

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Works Cited
Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill. For the Equal Rights Amendment. American Rhetoric: Top
100Speeches. American Rhetoric. Ed. Michael E. Eldenmuller. 2016. Accessed 20
August 2016. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html