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We The People

Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are the basic rights of all human beings and such differences amongst us as race, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, or ethnical background should be celebrated. In the United States of America we are insured to attain these basic rights by the Constitution composed by the heroes of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers. Today, when the first words of the historic document are read, “We the people of the United States…”, the feelings of acceptance and inclusion are felt, we know that these words protect every human being that walks the land of this beautiful country and diversity within our union is celebrated through these words, but this was not the case when the scribe inked the first bold letters of the introduction to the Supreme Law of the United States. These “inalienable rights” did not protect you or assured you that you have the freedom to pursuit life and liberty if you were a woman, because women had clear and definite roles in such patriarchal society, and the beauty of these words did not reach the Native Americans who were expelled and transported out of their homes into an Indian Territory.
The Post-Revolutionary society held extreme patriarchal values, with the identity of women defined by the household or the man they belong to, molding a society where women were discriminated, disheartened, and excluded from the basic human rights. A women was bound to the household, her duties were to be a good wife and mother, focusing on the domestic political and social education of the children, specifically sons, to be the leaders of the future generations. She ought to remain chaste, virginal, and pure while performing her duties to the male head of the household, her father or husband, and raising the children with surrounded with a good family and civil morality. Legally, women practically did not exist. They were allowed to introduce politics into the domestic environment within their...