We The People Cons

We the People of the United States” is the famous line that begins the Constitution of the United States. Since the signing of the constitution it has been realized that “We the People” does not necessarily refer to everyone. In actuality, “We the People” really refers to the white male. This is apparent just by looking at some of the amendments to the constitution. For if, “We the people” was intended to cover every person than we would not have amendments that abolished slavery and we would not have amendments that granted women or blacks the right to vote. From the beginning of our countries start, equality in American was set up to mean equality between white men and white men only. Women have suffered and worked hard to make progress to
A major pro to the legal equality path is the idea of liberalism or individualism. Liberalism is when the importance of rational thought, autonomous action, and choice on the part of each individual is stressed and empathized. This means that an individual’s status lies at the hands of their actions rather than their station or gender at birth. Another pro to the legal equality path is that it had been proven to work before. In cases such as The Civil Rights Movement and the Native American Civil Rights Movement it is shown, that they have been fought for and have ultimately won, equality under the law within the United
With their example, we have found a way to create common ground among women and fight together. This brings around the word feminist. The term feminism is something that is not new to the women’s fight; but, is a term and an identification that has become more popular within the past few years. It is hard to define a feminist because, as with many things, not one feminist has the same views as the other. In just, it is a term to describe or identify a set of people who are working for the common goal of equality amongst the sexes. There are said to be at least 7 different classes, or so called schools of feminism. Each of these schools have different ideology behind them. The most common and one, I feel, most feminist, is the Liberal Feminist. A liberal feminist works within the system to make sure the men and women are given the same opportunities, resources and fall under the same political