Read the excerpts from historical documents. From the Declaration of Independence: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our
most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. From the Declaration of Sentiments: After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single, and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it. How are these excerpts similar
Both excerpts present examples of legal oppression.
Explanation:
The excerpts presented in the question above are two examples of legal oppression, where someone or something possessing political power harmed a person or a group of people civilly, injuring the rights of citizens and causing civil and political damage through excess of authority. It is possible to reach this conclusion because in the first text, we can see that someone suspended all the laws adopted by a community, so that it could govern according to its own will. In the second text, we can see that a woman's property rights were taken away from her, because it did not seem profitable to someone with political power.
