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Bill of Rights

Declaration of Independence

Declaration of Sentiments

Designed to protect citizens from government.

Written by James Madison

Wrote in 1791

Designed to establish a way to break away from government.

Wrote by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.

Written in 1778

Similarities

They were written about the same people and they were written by the same type of people.

They both targeted similar government usurpations and absolute tyranny.

They were designed to protect people from the government.

Was the initiation of the federal suffrage movement in America in 1848.

States that woman want equal rights and the right to vote.

Written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton