Did any women sign the Declaration of Independence?

[cyberswede]

In Santorum's speech, he said, "The men and women who signed that Declaration of Independence wrote this final phrase: We pledge to each other -- we pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred Honor."

Am I confused?

[sakabatou]

1. ...

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. That misstatement sent the Twitter world a-twitter!

[shraby]

3. I heard that too and wondered where he came up with that one.

I guess since he's been lambasting women lately because of contraceptives, he thought he'd let them be a part of signing it....even though he'd like to put all of us back under the male thumb and into the kitchen fixing they're meals and walking a dutiful 3 steps behind.

[hfojvt]

9. actually it came from political correctness

People our age have been taught to be inclusive. We say "men and women" and "he or she". So we are likely to think and talk that way even though we know it is not true in the historical context.

[lunatica]

20. Really?

I don't have that problem. But stupid is as stupid does, I guess.

[ibegurpard]

4. uh lol?

of course they should've but that wasn't the way it happened.

[yewberry]

5. Uuuuh, no.

Nyet. Nope. Non.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Are there any women here?

[hyphenate]

15. Yep

At least one of them!

(The one on the far left (appropriately enough!) with the fake moustache)


The one on the far right looks a little like Eric Idle, though.

[DefenseLawyer]

23. They're all women. That's the joke.

It's from the great Monty Python film "The Life of Brian". Women are forbidden from taking part in "stoning", but it turns out that everyone who is taking part is a woman in disguise. That is Eric Idle, but he's playing a woman in the scene.

[lpbk2713]

7. Betty White?

Nah.

[ibegurpard]

8. haha

[Riftaxe]

10. It's the wigs, it can be very confusing

and is why you should not depend on picture books for learning history...



Here is Beatrice Franklin getting ready to sign!

[Sparkly]

24. LOL!!

[snooper2]

25. Hey, they only wore wigs because they didn't understand lice

LOL

[Ecumenist]

11. Wait, WHAT??! How many drugs do you have to take AND SURVIVE to say what he did?

I'm a BLACK WOMAN and not only was I NOT allowed to serve on a jury or own property, let alone vote, I was only considered 3/5th's of a person. What delusional world does he live in? Chilluns, this is what happens when you don't pay attention in class. SMDH

[unc70]

13. But black men were in NC

In NC you were a natural born citizen, but like white women you could not vote, had limited rights to own property.

[Ecumenist]

18. You do realise there was something called Slavery and we as black people, weren't

considered human. We were in fact, considered to be 3/5TH'S of a person. As a matter of fact, horses were often given top billing over black people at sales. So no, neither Black women NOR men were allowed to vote. My uncle had to leave his state in the 60's before he could S-A-F-E-L-Y vote, and that was South Carolina. Black people couldn't even legally marry. Couldn't have your chattel forming legal bonds when you needed to be ab loe to sell them off away from one another and there children like so many puppies.

[unc70]

19. Things were really different in NC

Not great, but NC was really different during the early history. Up until 1898. Plenty to be ashamed of for the next 60+ years.

Free "men of color" could vote until mid 1830's. Even freed slaves were natural born citizens.

[MADem]

12. Not unless one of those guys had something going on under their clothing that they

were keeping a great big secret...

He was too busy throwing up over JFK's comments to study his American History, I guess...

[hyphenate]

14. If they did

They did it disguised as men.

[Zalatix]

16. Sadly, no.

[dimbear]

17. Natural mistake, but Button Gwinnett was a guy.

Nowadays that would fit on a Valley girl.

[lunatica]

21. How easily he re-writes history!

You can do that when you don't read history. Just make it up as needed.

[Happyhippychick]

22. His entire speech was pandering to women because he has lost them. That was another example.