bradwell appealed appealed to the supreme court citing the 14th amendment as establishing equal rights in 1873 the supreme court dismissed her suit and the basis of nature and divine ordinance nature had made women timid and delicate and thus unfit for civil life to quote. the decision. god had made women to have one job and one job only motherhood for these were reasons quote a woman had no legal existence separate from her husband and could not hold property or enter into contracts and therefore cannot practice law. all human laws even the constitution the supreme court declared must bend to the law of the creator making any notion of equality between men and women, silly and downright dangerous. two years later virginia minor appeared before the court using the 14th amendment to insist on her right to vote again a unanimous court rejected minors argument her status as a citizen was irrelevant entering into perfectly circular logic the court reason that since women are citizens, but cannot vote that women did not have a right to vote. when congress attempted to protect the equality o