Was there equality after the Constitution in 1787?

Question

What should my thesis statement be?

Answer 1

You can say most certainly there was not equality after the
Constitution in 1787.

Equality

One of the most striking omissions of the U.S. Constitution of 1787 is arguably an explicit commitment to equality. Indeed, the only specific mention of equality in the document is found in Article V, which guarantees "that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate" (a point noted by Katz 1988, 747), thus focusing on governmental entities rather than persons. By contrast, in the opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson had announced that "all men are created equal." Even this document, however, had rested such equality on the equal possession of rights rather than on an equality of results. It was not until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 that the Constitution itself incorporated the aspiration of legal equality into the Constitution by guaranteeing all persons "equal protection of the laws," and this amendment itself was not vigorously enforced until the advent of the Warren Court in the 1950s and 1960s.Inequalities

The greatest obstacle to recognizing equality in the Constitution was the status of slaves, who were specifically acknowledged, for purposes of taxation and representation, to count for "three-fifths of a person." Although women were not specifically singled out in the Constitution, contemporary state laws relegated them to positions of inferior rights. Similarly, the Constitution identified Native American Indians as distinct from others.

Both liberalism (with its emphasis on a state of nature in which all men are equal) and republicanism (with its opposition to aristocracy and to hereditary privilege) had strong strains of equality. This was embodied in part in the provision in Article I, Section 9 prohibiting Congress from granting titles of nobility.

Your thesis statement should be left up to you, but it should point
out that even after the 1787 Constitution there was inequality that
still existed.

Answer 2

Quite obviously no. The Constitution really only benefited white males. Now it benefits everyone because of the amendments but originally women, blacks, native americans etc were all left out of the picture.

Answer 3

For a while there sort of was . . . until 1998.