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The word persons was used which sounds gender neutral however common law inherited from british precedents informed the interpretation of the law and many state laws were not gender neutral while right after the constitution was adopted new jersey accepted voting rights for women even those had been lost by a bill in 1807 that . Gender in constitutional law is a comprehensive three volume collection of formative and influential scholarship in a dynamic area of legal development and social change compiling theoretical empirical and practical analyses from leading scholars judges and nongovernmental organizations around the world these volumes are comparative and . The central gender question posed by comparative constitutional analysis is the impact of intervention at the constitutional level on gender hierarchy in life and law the gendered features of constitutional regimes in their relations to the social and legal contexts they reflect and shape can be analyzed along four principled dimensions . This article is the embodiment of the rule of law in our constitution there are two expressions which are used in article 14 equality before the law and equal protection of the laws the expression equality before law has its root in the english common law it means that equals law shall be equal and all these laws shall be equally