It did not extend to women.
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The 14th Amendment that gives the states rights to extend provisions under the national Bill of Rights.
The word Parliament is not in the Declaration, but it is referred to in two sections, the latter of which addresses the British people as a whole, saying :"We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us."
Kent v. United States (1966)
the fourteen amendment does not extend all bill of rights protections to the states
to limit power of the southern states to extend civil rights to freedmen to provide freedmen with political power