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AMH 2020 Lectures 1-39 Summary
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- AMH 2020
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- Florida Atlantic University
Notebook 5 (1-39) - Summaries of the sources given by the teacher, Steven Mitton. *Essential Study Material!!
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RBG (1)● Brought the idea of discrimination based on gender to the court.
● Law review, you had to be in the top 25 out of 500.
● Learned how to “burn the candle at both ends” by helping Marty.
● Graduated Columbia 1959
○ Ruth didn’t get hired anywhere in New York despite being on the Law Review.
■ Society changed because of the release of abortion pills and her job was to
move the law to follow that change.
● Being a woman was an impediment. State and federal laws discriminated based on
gender.
● Ruth’s first argument before the Supreme Court - Frontiero v. Richardson 1973
○ Wanted to capture in the briefing what it was like to be a second-class citizen.
● “Sex classifications imply a judgment of inferiority.”
Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld 1975
● A man cannot collect social security benefits as a woman can.
● This is the perfect example of how gender-based discrimination affects everyone.
- “Creating a legal landscape”
- “It is essential to women’s equality with men that she be the decision maker.”
United States v. Virginia - First women’s rights case on the Supreme Court.
● “You start with an assumption that you have to treat both genders equally.”
● “To help keep our country in tune with its most basic values.”
- Scalia: “What did the words mean to those who ratified the constitution.”
,Novak (2)
- “The history that America most frequently tells itself highlights a story of relative
powerlessness.”
- “Usually framed as a quest for freedom.”
Many Americans ignore the “role of collective power in the creation of his declaration of
independence” that comes from the government. P 2
- “Thoman Jefferson’s elision of slavery from the Declaration of Independence.”
- “American exceptionalism has not been transcended by twentieth-century state-building,
it has only taken on a new form.”
- “The American state is an anachronism”
The government has ‘rested upon force and law, upon sovereignty and freedom.’
Calls for history to be evaluated differently.
Despotic Power and Infrastructural Power
● DP - Refers to the organizational capacity of state elites to rule unchecked by other
centers of power or by civil society.
● IP - Refers to the positive capacity of the state to “penetrate civil society” and implement
policies throughout a given territory.
● American State = Produced by the American Revolution.
- “Despotism was the chief problem of European political thought for most of its history.”
- “The American state is organized more horizontally. Power is separated and divided
instead of integrated.”
- “Law has long been an indispensable and creative source of expanding political and
economic power..”
,Not For Ourselves (3)
● 14th Amendment includes the word male for the first time.
○ Stanton and Susan B. Anthony lobbied to have the language in this amendment
changed.
○ Ultimately pushed women’s rights to the side now that the “negro” had a chance
to shine.
● 15th Amendment - No one should be denied the vote based on race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
○ Stanton and Anthony tried to add “sex”, but failed and openly opposed the
amendment.
● Believed that the right to vote is what would’ve been the key to unlocking a voice for
women.
The Revolution
● A newspaper mix of political-cultural news by women and about them.
○ Brought new members to their association, but was beaten by The Woman’s
Journal.
● Susan B. Anthony and her sisters would try to bring chaos to get arrested and hopefully
bring the topic of Women’s Suffrage before the Supreme Court.
○ Unexpectedly, they were signed up to vote and Anthony was later arrested for
illegally voting.
- “Degraded from status of a citizen to a subject” -
● Said during a rigged trial where the judge ordered the jury to declare her guilty.
, West (4)
● Competition between the central pacific and union pacific to see who would cover the
most ground and get the most money from their employers.
○ Where to meet in Northern Utah. - Promontory Summit.
● The first event to make everyone feel like they’re part of a continent.
● Mormons had “incredible ambiguity” towards the transcontinental railroad.
○ The railroad brought more business for the Mormons but also brought people that
would threaten their way of life.
■ Added women to the voter’s roles because he felt it will only strengthen
the Mormon patriarch’s hold on Utah.
○ Polygamy had much judgment toward it, but to the Mormon women, it was a
sisterhood rather than being inferior to men.
The Way West
● Native Americans struggled desperately to hold onto their traditions at their reservations,
building resentment towards the Americans.
○ Americans would be threatened by their singing, dancing, and chanting.
● Crazy Horse - A Native American
○ Went down fighting and was respected for it.
● The Indian Messiah and Religion
○ Ghost Dance - meant to call those who were dead to return.
■ Thought to hasten the coming of a new world if they were peaceful with
the “White man”.
● As the Lakota Su danced, the Americans became threatened and tried to stop them.
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