Why were the Bill of Rights added to
the Constitution?
It was added to please and protect the people
from the national government to prevent
from gaining too much power. Adding the Bill
of Rights to the Constitution gained for more
people agreeing with the Constitution.
What impact do you think that "all men are
created equal" will have on American society?
The quote "all men are created equal" impacts the American society
brings many people together. No matter who you are now in this
time-including race, sex, or religion, you will have the right to pursue
happiness, living life, and being free.
At the time of this document they still had slaves which
meant if you were a man that was caucasian, you had to
right to vote, live and continue a job, and to be free
How is our modern understanding of the phrase different?
What reaction do the women expect?
People may take up for the woman's suffrage
and be giving them all of the rights that a
man has right away.
How do the women plan to continue fighting for women’s rights?
Continue to do manual labor jobs to show
that they are consistent in what they want and
that they deserve better.
What do you think life was like for middle-class white women in
the United States in the 1840s?
I believe it was diificult because no one took women seriously
and it was a rough time getting jobs started that women could do
without the labor of a man helping.
The Declaration of Independence was written to
explain to the foreign countries why they wanted to
become a country on their own and being separated
from Great Britain.
Both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were adopted to
settle internal conflict of the opposing teams but also improving
the government is what both of the authors of the Bill of Rights
and the Constitution thought that the government was made
for.
Both authors of the Declaration and the Bill of Rights say
everybody has the right to live, to being free, and to pursue
happiness.
Comparisons
Both of these documents were focused on a tyranny that was
with a limited state. Both were written by our founding fathers.
He has refused to Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless
suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he
has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions
on the rights of the people.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws
of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encouraged their migration hither, and
raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and
payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,
and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any Murders
which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of
his Protection and waging war against us.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign
Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation
and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty
& perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages,
and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized nation.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and
has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known
rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes and conditions.
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our
towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken
Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against
their Country, to become the executioners of
their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves
by their Hands.
The Declaration of Independence helped us to declare
our natural rights that a certain government had used
against them such as the liberty rights and equality
rights. Also on the Bill of Rights they declared use of
the liberty rights with an addition of enumerated
rights.
Grievances
Grievances of the Declaration of Sentiments
In the Declaration of Sentiments, it did not state its own rules whereas it
restated what the Declaration of Independence said- basically putting
emphasize on that all men and women are created equal.
What demands were made in the Sentiments?
The Declaration of Sentiments that equality of all men and women
have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It shows
that women are held back by the government society of which
they are a part of. The declaration then lists facts: the lack of
women’s suffrage, participation, representation in the
government; women’s lack of property rights in marriage;
inequality in divorce law; and inequality in education and
employment opportunities. The document demands that women
be viewed as equal citizens of the United States such as the men.
The most demand that was controversial was the inequality in
divorce laws because if the woman wants a divorce she should
be able to file for that. Same goes for the man. But the laws of
divorced marriages should be equal.
Why do you think Stanton modeled the Declaration of Sentiments on
the Declaration of Independence?
The author probably wrote it like that because the Declaration
of Independence had such a huge impact on people and it
made a difference in society so they figured the same about the
Declaration of Sentiments.
What are the similarities between the two documents?
These 2 documnets are the same, they both
declare the same grievances and tehy both
define equality as anybody has teh same equal
rights.