To many, there is nothing more precious to the American democracy than the right of citizens to vote fairly. “Women have suffered agony of soul which you can never comprehend, that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. That vote has been costly,” said Carrie Chapman Catt, a suffragist and peace activist who helped secure the right to vote in 1920. 72 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed, the Declaration of Sentiments was written at a convention in S ...