The "Five-Point Declaration" is considered by the very world ("") renounced by monastics to be discriminatory against women. Some monastics and scholars also consider it to be an inaccurate interpretation of the "vinaya" and other texts, similar to the Three-Fifths Compromise in the United States Constitution or other codified examples of discrimination such as coverture. In addition, the violations of national law that had been sought to avoid were distinct from the "vinaya" itself, as argued by Ajahn Brahmavaṁso on the same matter.