Declaration Of Sentiments and Resolutions

"He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.”

The author was relating how women were considered public and politically dead in a society among  men. Women voice didn’t count and their only purpose were to shadow their husbands. These traditional roles were warranted and women's rights were not exercised. Most women were viewed as not being practical thinkers rather than men who were considered as rational thinkers.

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The previously stated quote reflects on society’s view of women at the turn of the century. In today’s modern world many of these views still exist to a degree. Women continue to fight for equal rights today in order to have their voice heard and to be considered as equals to men as stated in the Declaration of Independence. These laws are implemented in our society and takes importance in the makeup of our government.

"The Federalist #51"

“The Federalist #51”

Whilst all authority in it will be delivered from and dependent on society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of the individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of the country and number of people comprehended under the same government (p. 105).

Madison was relating about the threats of factions in society. He shares how diversity in views and standards rather than a single approach can reduce the influence of factions. In a government free of factions, society should come to terms and reason on one accord. In so doing, the people will be more inclined to forgo threats to others.

My views on this quote from Federalist #51 highlight the importance of different classes of society and the significance it supposed to hold in the constitution. Individual and the minority rights would have a sense of protection from the divisions of the popular. It’s in the number of voices from the people which play a major role in the degree of security, as stated.