How did the United States government deny the equality of Native Americans?
What did Abigail Adams ask the founders of the new government?
Read these passages.Once it is proved that men and women are and ought to be unlike in constitution and in temperament, it follows that their education must be different.—Jean-Jacques RousseauIf children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.—Mary Wollstonecraft
Read the passage from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has the right to participate personally, or through their representatives, to its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.—Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Rousseau
How did limiting voting rights to white male landowners affect Americans in 1776?
Read the excerpt:We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.—Preamble to the US Constitution
Why does the preamble to the Constitution discuss promoting the general welfare?
Read the passage from the Declaration of Independence.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—Declaration of Independence
Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.—Declaration of Independence
How was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's criticism of inequality incomplete?
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