Justice Thurgood Marshall makes a better claim about the omission of women and black slaves from the Constitution because he shows that they were intentionally left out, in order to keep the power within the white males. The necessity of amendments exemplifies that the Constitution was inadequate in providing rights for people of all races and genders. Although Goldwin makes a case stating that this omission paves the way for the expansion of the protection of rights of individuals regardless of their race or gender, we have reached the development of equality that we have today because of all the people that fought for equal rights, not because of the Constitution. Marshall believes that the omission of women and black slaves from the Constitution was intentional because the Founding Fathers knew that slavery was a main source of wealth for their nation and wanted American to advance economically. Also, the Dred Scott decision exhibited the true beliefs of the government were to intentionally omit black slaves from the Constitution because they were considered property. In addition, the three fifth’s compromise, counting three slaves for every …show more content…
Robert Goldwin stated, “By agreeing to include three fifths, the slave states ended up with 47 percent-not negligible, but still a minority likely to be outvoted on slavery issues” (Goldwin, 185). While this is true, the percentage is fairly close to gaining the majority, which elevated the incentive for the South to increase the amount of slaves to increase their percentage of representation in the House of Representatives. The South wanted to gain the majority so that they could out vote the North on slavery issues and maintain the practice of