Women representation in Constitution

Introduction

A constitutional convention is a political gathering, which aims to draft a constitution new or revise an existing one. It makes a general constitutional convention to create the first constitution of a political entity or to replace an existing, whereas a limited constitutional convention was performed to check the existing constitution. In the USA, all states have the right to make constitutional conventions, whether general or limited. In general, are proposed by one of the houses of the legislature of the state, and must be approved by the majority (51%, 60% or 67%, depending on the state) of the members of both houses of the legislature and then by a majority of the state's population (51%) (Marshall, 7). Several American states allow the population, through manifestos (with a minimum number of signatures, usually between 5% and 10% of the voting population), to propose constitutional conventions that need to be ratified by most members of both chambers of the legislature, in addition, to the state's population.

Women, Slaves, African American, Children, and Native Americans are not represented in the constitution. In this paper, we are mainly focusing on Women Representation in the constitution. Women were not represented in the constitution because women were considered as second class citizen at times. Men thought that their only job is to born babies look after the household and raise children nothing else was permitted to them. The primary responsibility of the women was taking care of household possessions; excluded from public activities of men, working at home (not even going to buy the place because it was believed that trade was an occupation for men), is dealing with the tasks of supervising the slaves, which are directly involved in such tasks as cooking or clothing and, especially, tended to the children. According to ...