Affirming this truth, neither Thomas Jefferson nor any of America’s founders gave equal rights to women, including the one to whom they gave diligent studies and heeded—Sir William Blackstone.

Jefferson wrote that women should not be brought into governance, so as to “prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue.” He knew this well from his time in France, where he noted regarding their women’s intrusions into governance: “[Few Americans] can possibly understand the desperate state which things are reduced in this country from the omnipotence of an influence which, fortunately for the happiness of the sex itself, does not endeavor to extend itself in our country beyond the domestic line.” He contrasted American women by lauding them as they “who have the good sense to value domestic happiness above all other. ... Our good ladies, I trust, have been too wise to wrinkle their foreheads with politics.” Compared with the women of France, he said: “It is a comparison of Amazons to Angels.” Today, Jefferson would find that the Amazons have taken over our country.