Declaration of Sentiments

1. prudence (noun):

wise carefulness

 “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves, by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” (Paragraph #2) 

2. inalienable (adjective):

impossible to take away 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” (Paragraph #2) 

3. usurpations (plural noun):

wrongful seizures

4. evinces (present-tense verb):

to show clearly, make evident

5. despotism (noun):

abusive authority or control

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [women] under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.