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The Declaration of Sentiments and the Declaration of Independence have similar backgrounds in the sense that those who wrote and signed each of these documents felt that they were not being afforded the rights they were entitled to.
The Declaration of Sentiments, written primarily by Stanton, was based on the Declaration of Independence to parallel the struggles of the Founding Fathers with those of the women's movement. ... It argues that women are oppressed by the government and the patriarchal society of which they are a part.