US Legal Tradition Concerning Gender-Based Discrimination

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Thomas Jefferson believed that allowing women to "mix promiscuously in gatherings of men" would lead to "deprivations of morals and ambiguity of issues" (10). Half a century later, in 1852, an editorial in the New York Herald claimed that the prevention of women from participating in legal life was caused by the "nature" of woman, which "[dooms her] to subjection" (10)...
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The writer further claims that "women themselves would not have this [natural] law reversed" (10). Expanding upon the idea of women's "natural" inferiority, Justice Brandley, in his concurring opinion for Bradwell v. Illinios, wrote, "Man is...woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life...
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