New Government Quotes
She advocated the women creating their own U. S. Constitution and living by it. If enough women did, she argued, the men would have to accommodate and accept many of the clauses. She was not only advocating an equal rights amendment, but a more substantial change to outlaw private discrimination against women which would not have been covered by an equal rights amendment, since at the time private discrimination of all kinds was legal and practiced widely.
It was indeed the first government that was ever founded on that fallacious principle. In retrospect, it was amazing that more Southerners did not question why no other government in the history of the world based a society on that principle. The Southern hubris was a great failing for them.