Summary Of Women And The 14th Amendment

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Based on the reading “Women and the Constitution” by Akhil Reed Amar, an american legal scholar who was the professor of law at Yale Law School, addressed that discrimination was made legal by the before and during the process of the 14th amendment. Before, the process of women to serve men was common law, Due to the United States Constitution was established by men in the 1700s which was when racial hetero patriarchal normativity has been justified. This prompted a rule that women shouldn’t participate in the conventions that shaped the constitution. This infuriated women and gave them the urge to establish and promote gender equality
The 14th amendment adopted in 1860s was then established which addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, in response to issues related to former slaves after the American Civil War. However, this demonstrated sexism to especially unmarried women due to the 14th amendment letting former slaves have the rights that unmarried women longed for. The 14th amendment justified differential citizenship by demonstrating that white people were given privileges and immunities for all citizens even though there was a distinction between civil and political rights. The whites had both political and civil rights while the former slaves only had civil rights.
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This demonstrated that race discrimination was different than gender discrimination since the 1860s based on how the 14th amendment discriminated women even women who were former slaves and how men former slaves were only granted civil rights instead of political