The text of the Constitution held these truths to be self-evident, “That all men (and women) are born equal and entitled to certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The Constitution should have been erected in harmony with those declarations.
Woodhull critiques the Constitution for not aligning with the principles of equality and inalienable rights.
Share
More from Victoria C. Woodhull
Thousands possessed of comprehensive principles in a semi state of application have sunk with them into obscurity for lack of appreciation and support.
Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
They must and will attain their journey’s end.
Or will they sell their birthright for less than a “mess of pottage?” Is it necessary that some great calamity come before an awakening to the reality of the condition will occur?