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Since Mercy Otis Warren was actually the author of Observations on the New Constitution, I found it interesting that her main points focused on the structure of the legal system. As a women, who wrote many works, would she not be more concerned about the stronger possibility of inequality toward women with this Constitution than the role of women previously during war times, or would that have been to conspicuous to bring up inequality toward women from the point of view of the "male" who was writing this article at this time? Quincey Garcia | Since Mercy Otis Warren was actually the author of Observations on the New Constitution, I found it interesting that her main points focused on the structure of the legal system. As a women, who wrote many works, would she not be more concerned about the stronger possibility of inequality toward women with this Constitution than the role of women previously during war times, or would that have been to conspicuous to bring up inequality toward women from the point of view of the "male" who was writing this article at this time? Quincey Garcia | ||
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| + | I am not sure how representative this piece is of political pieces of the time, but I did notice Warren's writing seems extremely overdramatized. She uses language like "tyranny", "wanton lust of domination", "secret intrigues", "shrine of ambition", "many-headed monster", etc. I did recognize she had a history in the field of drama and entertainment as a poet and a playwright. Is this merely a peculiarity in the way this particular author chooses to write or is this a typical persuasion piece in the vein of others of the time? Did most anti-federalists really see this new constitution as a tyrannical monster? -Adam Shlossman | ||
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== Thomas Jefferson's Notes of the State of Virginia, 1782 == | == Thomas Jefferson's Notes of the State of Virginia, 1782 == | ||
I found the document ''Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race'' interesting because how he compares whites to blacks in the aspect of logic/reason and physical attributes in order to justice his prejudices. My question is did most whites of this era think like Thomas Jefferson, in part to understand who the blacks were and if black slavery was justifiable? or did they have such a superiority complex that they didn't give themselves a chance to think like Thomas Jefferson? --Nick Scott-- | I found the document ''Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race'' interesting because how he compares whites to blacks in the aspect of logic/reason and physical attributes in order to justice his prejudices. My question is did most whites of this era think like Thomas Jefferson, in part to understand who the blacks were and if black slavery was justifiable? or did they have such a superiority complex that they didn't give themselves a chance to think like Thomas Jefferson? --Nick Scott-- | ||
