In 1872, Susan B. Anthony cast a ballot for a federal election in New York. She was arrested and put on trial. In court, she argued that her action was legal under the Fourteenth Amendment, which gave citizens the right to vote. Her highly publicized trial raised public awareness about woman suffrage. Your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict

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of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually, but all [women], are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this, so-called, form of government. "Women Fight for the Vote" gives an account of Susan B. Anthony's legal argument for the right to vote. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony gives Anthony's own words on the same topic.
How does Anthony's argument in The Trial of Susan B. Anthony most clearly differ in emphasis from "Women Fight for the Vote"?
1. Anthony argues that although the government is wrong, women will uphold the rule of law.
2. Anthony argues that although a battle has been lost, women will continue to fight for the vote.
3. Anthony argues that without a chance to speak in their defense, women are denied their rights.
• 4. Anthony argues that without the fundamental right to vote. women lose all other rights of citizenship.

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4. Anthony argues that without the fundamental right to vote, women lose all other rights of citizenship.

In "The Trial of Susan B. Anthony," her emphasis is on how the denial of the right to vote undermines her status as a citizen and strips away her other rights. She highlights the fundamental nature of voting as a cornerstone of citizenship and implies that its absence leads to broader implications for women's rights and status in society. This focus on the interconnectedness of voting rights and citizenship rights sets her argument apart from the other options.