The following passage is about Mary Goddard, the woman who first published the Declaration
of Independence. Select the best evidence to support the statement that the original U.S.
Constitution did not set any national rules about who could vote.
Goddard oversaw the task of printing the Declaration of Independence, but its
words about liberty and freedom did not include her. In revolutionary America,
women did not live as equals with men. Not one man who signed the Declaration
even dreamed that women should vote, sit on a jury, or serve in government.. . .
The terms "woman suffrage" or "women's suffrage" that you read here refer to the
unique topic of a woman's right to vote. That right was not included in the original
U.S. Constitution. Each state was allowed to write its own laws about suffrage. In
the early days of the United States, voting rights were usually reserved for white
men who owned property.