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Phase 2

US Declaration of Independence

"The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776."

"Finally, on July 4, 1776, the Congress approved the Declaration of Independence"

MLA 8th Edition (Modern Language Assoc.) Burgan, Michael. The Declaration of Independence. Compass Point Books, 2001.

9780756500429. 9780756550189. Phase 3

Basch, Norma. "Declarations of Independence: Women and divorce in the early

republic." Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and

Practice, edited by Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith, Columbia

University Press, 2003, 10.7312/schw12892-003, pp. 34-44.

Thomas Jefferson believed the ability to get a divorce would be an asset to all people. Although, men might find it easier to remarry, it would benefit both men and women to have the right to get a divorce. He recognized that there would be times that a divorce would be necessary and should be permissible.

Lewis, Jan. "Representation of Women in the Constitution." Women and the U.S.

Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice, edited by Sibyl

Schwarzenbach and Patricia Smith, Columbia University Press, 2003, 10.7312/schw12892-002, pp. 23-33.

As women and their rights are more closely reviewed, looking at the role of women in society in three parts, “history, interpretation, and practice.”  The role of women in society is changing during this time and will continue to change even more in the future. Women and their perspective is evaluated and looked at in order to better determine opportunities for the future.

Phase 4

Paragraph: “The marriage contract, then, with its provisions for coverture, which folded the wife’s legal personality into that of her husband, was an integral part of the founders’ conceptualization of white women’s constitutional status. As Carole Pateman has argued, the story of the social contract, which is a story of freedom, represses the story of the marriage contract, or what she calls “the sexual contact,” which is a story is subjection.”

Summary part 1: Marriage was basically looked at like the husband was purchasing property.

Paragraph: “She had no choice but to abandon her property and to follow her Loyalist husband when he left the country. In response, Sullivan insisted that “surely a feme covert” can be an inhabitant in every sense of the word. Who are the members of the body politic? Are not all the citizens, members: infants, idiots, insane, or whatever may be their relative situations in society?” Women, then were inhabitants, members, and citizens; the state constitution secured them their rights and privileges, and entailed upon them responsibilities. They were part of the social compact.”

Summary part 2: Women had no choice but to obey their husbands until they were fully accepted into society.

Section 1. "That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Marriage was basically like the husband was purchasing property.

"The declaration was made to guarantee equal rights for every person, and if it had been intended for only a certain section of people, Congress would have left it as "rights of Englishmen". Women had no choice but to obey their husbands until they were fully accepted into society.