Excerpt from Suffrage Conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment: Woman's Suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in General Term, October, 1871; Sara J. Spencer Vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster Vs. The Judges of Election
In doing this, my purpose is, without comment upon the gravity of the case, and avoiding everything like speech-mak ing, to deal with the cases in their purely legal aspects. Nor do I mean to step from the line of dry argument - the narrow stoney way of the law.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book presents an argument for the inclusion of women in the electorate, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It traces the history of women's suffrage in the US, and internationally, drawing on a range of sources including English common law and the writings of political philosophers. The author argues that the right to vote is a natural right, and that women have been unjustly excluded from the franchise. The book provides a detailed analysis of the legal and historical arguments for and against women's suffrage, and concludes that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees women the right to vote. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in the history of women's rights, constitutional law, and American history. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780243602353_0
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