Unit 2 of English – II (syllabus: Module 2 — Susan B. Anthony and United States v. Susan B. Anthony; Brown v. Board of Education; Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists; Gandhi on child marriage; Emma Watson at the United Nations). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- On what two grounds did Judge Hunt convict Susan B. Anthony, and why is each contestable?
- How is Anthony's statement at sentencing structured, and why does its structure matter?
- How does the Supreme Court reason its way from equal buildings to inherently unequal schools in Brown?
- How does Adichie build an argument out of personal stories, and where does law appear in it?
- What is Gandhi's position on legislating against child marriage, and why does he qualify it?
- How does Gandhi answer an opponent, and what does his method teach about handling contested facts?
- Why does Emma Watson address her United Nations speech to men, and how does she earn the right to?
- What thread joins all five texts of Module 2, and how is a comparative answer built on it?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- Speeches and essays: the trial of Susan B. Anthony, s. Judge Hunt's ruling - no right to vote, and good faith no defence
- Speeches and essays: the trial of Susan B. Anthony, s. The speech at sentencing - citizen and subject, and the forms of law
- Brown v. Board of Education, the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, s. The Fourteenth Amendment - equal protection of the laws
- We Should All Be Feminists, a talk before a live audience, s. Story and principle; where law appears
- Gandhi's essays on child marriage, s. Age of consent and the limits of legislation
- Gandhi's essays on child marriage, s. Rebuttal, undisputed facts, and the remedy entrusted to women
- The HeForShe speech at the United Nations, s. Equal pay, bodily autonomy, participation in policy and equal respect
- Law and Literature: speeches and essays, s. Carrying the module - law and what law cannot do alone
Leading cases
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka