Women from the liberal middle and working classes had a part in national campaigns that merged her aspirations for constitutionalism with national unity. They used the rising general discontent to urge their demands for the establishment of a country based on legislative principles – a constitution, freedom of the press, and civil liberties. Women organised a political organisation, in which they established a journal. During Assembly voting days, women were prevented from voting. Women were portrayed as spectators, capable of standing in the visitor's galleries.