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5. On what just ground do the laws make a distinction between men and women, in regard to the ownership of property, inheritance, and the administration of estates?

6. Why should women, any more than men, be taxed without representation?

7. Why may not women claim to be tried by a jury of their peers, with exactly the same right as men claim to be and actually are?

8. If women need the protection of the laws, and are subject to the penalties of the laws equally with men, why should they not have an equal influence in making the laws, and appointing Legislatures, the Judiciary, and Executive?

And, finally, if governments — according to our National Declaration of Independence — "derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," why should women, any more than men, be governed without their own consent; and why, therefore, is not woman's right to suffrage precisely equal to man's?

For the end of finding out practical answers to these and similar questions, and making suitable arrangements to bring the existing wrongs of women, in the State of New York, before the Legislature at its next session, we, the undersigned, do urgently request the men and women of the Commonwealth to assemble in Convention, in the city of Rochester, on Wednesday, November 30th, and Thursday, December 1, 1853.

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The Convention assembled at Corinthian Hall at 10 o'clock. Rev. Samuel J. May, of Syracuse, in the chair.

^[2] After thanking

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1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls;	James M'Cune Smith, New York;
   Mary Cheney Greeley, New York;	S. G. Love, Randolph;
   Ernestine L. Rose, New York;	Mary F. Love, Randolph;
   Samuel J. May, Syracuse;	C. M. Crowley, Randolph;
   George W. Jonson, Buffalo;	R. T. Trall, New York;
   Antoinette L. Brown, South Butler;	Emily 8. Trall, New York;
   Frederick Douglass, Rochester;	Oliver Johnson, New York;
   Hiram Corliss, Greenwich;	Mariana W. Johnson, New York 3;
   Lydia A. Jenkins, Geneva;	Sydney Howard Gay, New York;
   William H. Channing, Rochester;	Catharine E. Welling, Elmira;
   William Hay, Saratoga Springs;	Mrs. Holbrook, Elmira;
   Amy Post, Rochester;	H. A. Zoller, Little Falls;
   Mary H. Hallowell, Rochester;	Stephen Haight, Dutchess County;
   Susan B. Anthony, Rochester;	Sarah A. Burtis, Rochester;
   William R. Hallowell, Rochester;	Lydia P. Savage, Syracuse;
   Isaac Post, Rochester;	Lydia Mott, Albany;
   Mary B. F. Curtis, Rochester;	J. B. Sands, Canandaigua;
   Lemira Kedzie, Rochester;	Catharine H. Sands, Canandaigua;

    
2. Vice-Presidents. — Ernestine L. Rose, New York; 8. C. Cuyler, Wayne; Amy Post, Rochester; Mary F. Love, Randolph; Amelia Bloomer, Seneca Falls; Caroline Keese, Cayuga; Griffith M. Cooper, Wayne; Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, South Butler; Matilda Joslyn Gage, Manlius; Rev. J. W. Loguin, Syracuse; Sarah A. Burtis, Rochester; Emma R. Coe, Buffalo.   Secretaries. — Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Pellet, Wm. J. Watkins, and Sarah Willis.   Finance Committee. — Mary 8. Anthony, Mary H. Hallowell, E. J. Jenkins, Lucy Colman, and Mary Cooper.   Business Committee. — Emestine L. Rose, William Henry Channing, Antoinette L Brown, Frederick Douglass, Amy Post, and Samuel J. Love.