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= 2) What arguments were made to justify the denial of rights? = The first Women's Rights convention based its demand for women's suffrage on natural rights. The Declaration of Sentiments, which the convention issued, enumerated women's lack of economic and educational opportunities, inequalities in pay and property rights, as well as their lack of representation in government.  In 1890, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The new organization's leaders were more pragmatic than their predecessors. Instead of arguing for suffrage in terms of equal rights, they increasingly emphasized arguments based on utility, contending that the vote for women was necessary to clean up politics and fight social evil.

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