Declaration Of Despotism

Human being has certain rights that are granted by nature and God. Although in the society, some of those rights are not given as a natural right to some groups of people. (This idea could be used for both women and black rights. Christian principles were frequently used in that period to demand equality treatment. ) God said that every person has the same rights, no matter the sex or race of the individual. Custom says otherwise, and for this reason if an individual wishes to obtain her, his natural right beyond what society has allowed to that person. She or he is forced to declare rationally the causes or reasons to do so. And that is exactly what the following declaration of sentiments is.
“ it is the right of those who suffer from it
And it is the duty of the government to pursue the happiness and welfare of its people by granting equal rights.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security”
The author is comparing the treatment given to women with a type of despotism and she is reminding the government that its main duty is to protect the people and if they fail to do so they must be remove from power. It shows that the authors are willing to face up to the government. They are not willing to endure their situation any longer.
Following, the author enumerates a list of injustices that men often forces onto
“In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master--the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement” A husband had the right to decide where and when his wife must be, and the law allowed him to lock her in if he wished.
“He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given” The laws were made exclusively by men, so in the case of divorce he had the custody of the children.
“He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration.” The author also speaks about the quality of the jobs that are left to women and the difference in wages, all of it leaves women in a dependent situation of men; which made even harder to have any kind of