Women's Suffrage
I was on my friend's roommate's boat yesterday on the Mississippi, and we were talking about politics and women's rights. Of course, Ron Paul was part of the conversation, and I got onto my usual rant about how it's annoying that so many people call him a crazy old man. He's had a lot of success campaigning in Iowa recently, and the Telegraph Herald has an article about Barack Obama's impending visit to Dubuque. I should think if Barack Obama were a true professor of constitutional law, he'd have nothing against this simple argument. If he were an honest person, then he'd also recognize the absurd notion that the 6th article's supremacy clause must not contradict the necessity of the 14th and 19th amendments. More discussion found in talk_politics. ETA: It took until 1833 for the Supreme Court to decide the 5th amendment did not apply to States.
1) Every person has an innumerable list of rights derived as all possible activities from the generalized rights of life, liberty, and property (c/o the 5th and 9th amendments to the U.S. bill of rights).
2) Men and women are persons.
3) Therefore, men and women have N rights.
4) If disparity is created by the deprivation of a right, and that right does not reasonably deprive another of their rights, then the 5th amendment is broken.
5) Disparity between men and women in social life, politics, and economics occurs regularly.
6) Therefore, the 5th amendment is broken regularly.
1) Every person has an innumerable list of rights derived as all possible activities from the generalized rights of life, liberty, and property (c/o the 5th and 9th amendments to the U.S. bill of rights).
2) Men and women are persons.
3) Therefore, men and women have N rights.
4) If disparity is created by the deprivation of a right, and that right does not reasonably deprive another of their rights, then the 5th amendment is broken.
5) Disparity between men and women in social life, politics, and economics occurs regularly.
6) Therefore, the 5th amendment is broken regularly.