Declaration of Independence vs. Bill of Rights pt. 2

The Declaration of Independence was written because in 1776, Colonists wanted an official and permanent break from Great Britain.
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to guarantee protection of the people from a strong central government. It also served as a compromise between Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
Grievences in the Declaration of Independence were facts about what all the King of Britian had done in the past.
The Bill of Rights compromises the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
1. It also contains rights designed to guarantee individual freedom.
Declaration of Sentiment
1. Grievences
  1. Married women were legally dead in the eye of the law.
  2. Women were not allowed to vote.
  3. Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation.
  4. Married women had no property rights.
  5. Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity.
  6. Divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women.
  7. Women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes.
  8. Most occupations were not open to men and when women did work they were only paid a fraction of that of men.
  9. Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law.
  10. Women had no means to get an education.
  11. With few exceptions, women were not allowed to participate in any affairs of the church.
  12. Women were made totally dependent on men.
2. Based on this document it seems like life for middle-class white women in the United States during the 1840s was pretty rough. It seems like they have no place or reason to be there other than to do as their husbands said.

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