Woman SuffrageU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 100 страница |
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ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY adopted Applause ballot box believe canvass Carl Schurz Chairman and gentlemen citizens Committee on Woman Congress Constitution convention demand denied discharge duties election Elizabeth Cady Stanton enfranchisement of women equal exercise fact favor female suffrage girls give Government hands hear honor HOWELL E human husband ignorant influence intelligent interests John Morrissey Judiciary jury justice labor ladies large number legislation legislature LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE majority ment Miss ANTHONY moral mothers Nation negro never opinion party petition present privilege proposed amendment protect question race ratify reason represent republican resolution right of suffrage right to vote secure SHAW sixteenth amendment social society speak submitted suffragists taxes thing tion to-day United UNITED STATES SENATE voice voters Washington Territory wish woman suffrage women the right York York City ZERELDA G
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Страница 64 - SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. SECTION 2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Страница 7 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Страница 4 - ... us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and National legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions embracing every part of the country. RESOLUTIONS WHEREAS, The great precept of nature is conceded to be, that "man...
Страница 56 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, extending the right of suffrage to women.
Страница 4 - Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation — in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States.
Страница 4 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Страница 64 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 3 - An act for the more effectual protection of the property of married women,
Страница 66 - nor blame Too much the sons of men and barbarous laws; These were the rough ways of the world till now. Henceforth thou hast a helper, me, that know The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or free...
Страница 59 - Hence, when it is proposed to give to the women of this country an opportunity to present their case to the various State legislatures to demand of the people of the country equality of political rights, it is not surprising to find that the reasons on which the continuance of the inferiority of women is urged, are drawn almost entirely from a tender consideration for their own good.