Hello, I need help with this assignment, it’s about reading a book( I’ve attached a copy of the book under name “Chapter7”. here’s the directions listed below for you, all I want you to do is to answer all the questions also respond to the responses in the very end of these instructions.
Instructions:
Discussion Forum Instructions
You must participate in the weekly discussion forum. You are asked to submit 5 posts to the discussion board. These 5 posts will include your responses to the original thread question(s) posted by the instructor as well responses to your peers.
There are two kinds of discussion posts:
Original Response to Thread Question: You will respond to the assigned questions based on the readings and/or films for that week. These original posts should be about 200-250 words long. You may wish to compose your posts in Word or a text editor, then copy and paste when you are ready. Your first original post should be submitted on Thursday or Friday of each week in order to receive full credit for that discussion. This ensures that we have enough content before the weekend and don’t have a “traffic jam” of posts on Sunday night with everyone submitting posts and waiting for others to submit. Quality of the post is important, so be sure that your posts answer the questions and demonstrate knowledge.
Response-to-Peers Posts: You will also respond to your classmates’ posts during the week. Quality posts are rewarded. A “reply” means doing more than just agreeing or disagreeing with a post. You must support what someone else has posted and expand upon it, or disagree and provide an alternative perspective.
Citation requirements
Your posts need to contain citations of the readings. You may use parenthetical references. For example, (author, title of document, year, page number). You are not required to and should not use sources other than the assigned readings.
You should cite any time you:Use a direct quoteUse an idea strongly associated with a particular sourceUse a controversial argument or a specific figure, like a statisticYou do not have to cite when you are relating commonly know facts.
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Week seven discussion Threads:
IMPORTANT: Before you contribute to the discussion, make sure you have read the assigned reading for this week: Brown and Shannon, Going to the Source, vol. 1; Chapter 7 “The Question of Female Citizenship”
Study tip: Each chapter in Going to the Source includes a source table that will help you analyze the documents before you write about them. You do not need to submit the source table. It is a study aid for preparing your discussion answers.
Citation Tips: Practice citing your sources! Telling the reader where you found your information is one of the most important components of writing for this class. You must cite everything taken from a source, whether you are quoting, summarizing, paraphrasing, or even just taking a fact from that source. Not only is the presentation of evidence a requirement for maximum points on discussion forums, any use of sources with a failure to cite a source represents plagiarism.
Be sure to: 1) edit your posts to avoid spelling/grammar mistakes; 2) check back regularly to comment on any responses you get to your original posts; and 3) cite page numbers for all references to readings
Citation Examples:To cite evidence from non-textbook readings in this course, use parenthetical references with the author’s last name and page number (if page numbers are available), i.e.: Author Elizabeth Kolbert writes, “Columbus reasoned that the world was shaped like a ball with a breastlike protuberance” (Kolbert). Or, if it’s not a quote: Contrary to popular memory, Christopher Columbus did not believe that the world was spherical (Kolbert). If an author wrote more than one outside reading, please include the title of the article in quotation marks. For the textbook and the reader, use “TAP” or “GTTS” instead of the author’s last name, i.e.: Columbus writes, “For it is true…” (TAP, 23). Or, if it’s not a quote: Columbus claimed that the people he encountered at Hispaniola believed that he and his crew were gods (GTTS, 23).
Question 1: Feme-Covert: What are some of the contradictions or tensions between a woman’s status as a feme-covert and her role as a citizen that are made evident in this case? How did the justices resolve these contradictions in their decision?
Question 2: Marriage: The lawyers referred to marriage as a relationship governed by law. Which law? How could a woman’s adherence to the laws of marriage conflict with her adherence to the laws of the state? Which of the two did these lawyers and justices recognize as the higher law?
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Response 1: For:
Juliana McGarry-Nowak “ A woman could not always follow the laws as a citizen and follow the laws of being a feme-covert. As a citizen, Anna Martin legally abandoned her property and under the Confiscation Law it belonged to the state. However, since she was a feme-covert, she was expected to obey her husband and therefore had no choice but to leave her property and flee the country with him (GTTS 143). The justices had to decide which was more important: obeying your husband or obeying the government. The justices decided that Anna Martin was exempt from confiscation of her property because, as a feme-covert, she was expected to do what her husband said and should not be held guilty for decisions he made (GTTS 157).
Response 2# for
Talal Alzahrani “There are certain conflicts and problems with feme-coverts that were covered in the text after Ames Martin filed a lawsuit for her mother’s property. Due to the fact that their husbands represent them in society, feme coverts have restricted roles and duties (GTTS 144). How women were perceived at the period, like in the instance of James Martin, where her mother, Anna, received an inheritance from her father. Martin, Anna’s husband who was serving in the British Army at the time, ordered their evacuation from the Boston (GTTS 141).
Anna was not charged of anything because she left the state because of her spouse because she had to comply with all of his commands (GTTS 142). Due to Anna’s departure from the US while the heir to her father’s New Hampshire and Massachusetts land, her property was seized. The Martin’s side countered that because Anna had agreed to follow her husband’s instructions, she was exempt from this confiscation. The state side said that laws were imposed on both whether man or women, “therefore confiscation was” (GTTS 143). After the Revolution, female citizenship was redefined, but in Martin v. Massachusetts, all the arguments were made at that time by men, and the key character Anna was not involved because she had already passed away (GTTS 147)
The Martin v. Massachusetts case required a jury of five judges, and each judge considered Anna to be a covert female in society while forming their opinions on the matter. If a wife assisted her husband in stealing something, she will not be punished, despite the proverbial rule that a person who steals something will be punished. And the other justice, Justice Francis Dana said “I am clearly of opinion that the judgement out to be reserved…. because feme-covert, having no will, could not incur the forfeiture (GTTS 157).
Response #3 for:
Kaylynn Barnard “Justice Simeon Strong states that the law considers a feme-covert as having no will because she is under the control of her husband, and is expected to obey (GTTS 156). Furthermore, in the Martin v. Massachusetts case, Anna Martin could not qualify for the states confiscation law because she could not make decisions in her political allegiance separate of her husband. The lawyers and justices recognized that the husband is the higher law, and endorsed the notion that a married woman could not act independently of her husband in political or economic matters (GTTS 158).
