The Woman Citizen's Library: Woman suffrageShailer Mathews Civics Society, 1913 The underlying theme of these essays by reformers such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelly is women's civic responsibility to play a vital role in public affairs. |
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Page 1643 - I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Page 1826 - Every person having resided in this State one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any election therein, who was an elector in this State on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord...
Page 1808 - Constitution and Government. THE form of government of the United States is based on the constitution of September 17, 1787, to which ten amendments were added, December 15, 1791 ; an eleventh amendment, January 8, 1798; a twelfth amendment, September 25, 1804; a thirteenth amendment, December 18, 1865 ; a fourteenth amendment, July 28, 1868 ; and a fifteenth amendment, March 30, 1870. By the constitution, the government of the nation is entrusted to three separate authorities, the executive, the...
Page 1653 - And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Page 1688 - whereas the elections of knights of shires to come to the parliament of our lord the King, in many counties of the realm of England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive numbers of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of which most part was of people of small substance, and of no value...
Page 1602 - 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).
Page 1597 - As for Mistress Brent's undertaking and meddling with your Lordship's Estate here (whether she procured it with her own and 82. others importunity or no) we do Verily Believe and in Conscience report that it was better for the Colony's safety at that time in her hands than in any man's else in the whole Province after your brother's death.
Page 1689 - ... people of small substance and of no value; whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to 'such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties, whereby...
Page 1699 - The potential voters seem to vary from one-sixth to one-fiftieth of the population, and the actual voters show almost an equal variation; Massachusetts and Connecticut showing at times only two per cent. of actual voters among a population where perhaps sixteen per cent. were qualified electors; and New York City and Virginia showing the far larger proportion of eight per cent. of the population as actual voters.
Page 1689 - England, have now of late been made by very great, outrageous, and excessive number of people dwelling within the same counties of the realm of England, of the which most part was of people of small substance and of no value; whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent, as to 'such elections to be made, with the most worthy knights and esquires dwelling within the same counties...
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| Title | The Woman Citizen's Library: Woman suffrage Volume 7 of The Woman Citizen's Library: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship, Shailer Mathews |
| Editor | Shailer Mathews |
| Publisher | Civics Society, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Jul 2007 |
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