How did popular views of property rights prevent slaves from enjoying all the freedoms of the social contract?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Women and slaves were not truly independent. Their social contract laid out in the Declaration of Independence. The idea of the Declaration was that all white men enjoyed equality of rights. They could enter into a social contract with the government because they were free agents. Slaves were owned by other people and dependent upon the agents. Women were dependent on their husbands and children. Both were considered incompetent or incapable of independence.
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