Woman Suffrage: Hearing Before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 13, 1900 |
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Page 33 - Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women (Mrs.
Page 1 - 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...
Page 6 - The very act of taxing, exercised over those who are not represented, appears to me to be depriving them of one of their most essential rights, as freemen; and if continued, seems to be in effect an entire disfranchisement of every civil right. For what one civil right is worth a rush, after a man's property is subject to be taken from him at pleasure, without his consent? If a man is not his own assessor in person, or by deputy, his liberty is gone, or lays intirely at the mercy of others.
Page 1 - 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.
Page 33 - ... be the support and protection of their weaker physical nature, and when men cannot depend upon women for the tender offices and ministrations which belong sacredly and indefeasibly to the home, it will be high time for the race to take account of itself and square its course anew. They insist that it Is not the tyranny but the chivalry of men that we American women have to fear. The men of America want to give us everything we really need, and the danger is that they will mistake a minority for...
Page 33 - I will be very happy to answer it. The CHAIRMAN. I would like to ask you one or two questions, Mr.
Page 11 - ... intervals. Charles Fox referred to it in a speech, which I have already had occasion to notice, and which was delivered in the May of 1797. He says that, ' with the exception of companies, in which the right of voting merely affects property/ it has never been suggested, ' in all the theories and projects of the most absurd speculation, that it would be advisable to extend the elective suffrage to the female sex...
Page 24 - No gown or garment worse becomes a woman than that she will be wise," fitted her solely for the menial offices of the slave and subordinate?
Page 33 - ... both. Women need the ballot to protect themselves and all that they hold dear. Miss SHAW. Gentlemen of the committee, I ask you to make a report favoring a sixteenth amendment to the national Constitution which shall grant to the women of the United States the right to vote on equal terms with men. There lie upon the table before you extracts from reports made by committees of former Congresses, by men who have believed in this fundamental principle of justice to women. We ask for a sixteenth...
Page 35 - The object sought can be accomplished without any amendment whatever to the Constitution whenever public opinion in the several States shall be pronounced in its favor.