Q. What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue?
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She called for the betterment of women’s status through such political change as the radical reform of national educational systems. Such change, she concluded, would benefit all society.
Q. What arguments does Wollstonecraft present for women’s rights?
She argues that women’s education ought to match their position in society, and that they are essential to the nation because they raise its children and could act as respected “companions” to their husbands.
Q. What does Wollstonecraft claim is the result of the most perfect education?
“Consequently, the most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart; or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.” The purpose of education is to give women …
Q. What does vindicated mean?
transitive verb. 1a : to free from allegation or blame. b(1) : confirm, substantiate. (2) : to provide justification or defense for : justify.
Q. Does acquittal mean not guilty?
Definition. At the end of a criminal trial, a finding by a judge or jury that a defendant is not guilty. An acquittal signifies that a prosecutor failed to prove his or her case beyond a reasonable doubt, not that a defendant is innocent.
Q. Can an acquittal be overturned?
With one exception, in the United States an acquittal cannot be appealed by the prosecution because of constitutional prohibitions against double jeopardy. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: If the judgment is upon an acquittal, the defendant, indeed, will not seek to have it reversed, and the government cannot.
Q. Can you be convicted after being acquitted?
Double jeopardy is a procedural defence (primarily in common law jurisdictions) that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following an acquittal in the same jurisdiction.
Q. Does an acquittal stay on your record?
Though an acquittal means the prosecutor failed to prove the defendant was guilty, the defendant will still walk away with a criminal record from the case regardless.
Q. How many of the jury have to agree?
When the jury struggles to all agree on the same verdict, the judge may decide that a verdict can be returned if a majority of the jury can reach an agreement. This is known as ‘majority verdict’ and normally means that the judge is content to receive a verdict if 10 or more of the 12 jurors are in agreement.
