Book/Printed Material Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1874 General Collections copy

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  • Image 1 of General Collections copy ARGUMENT 201 BEFORE THE Judiciary Committee OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UPON THE Petition of 600 Citizens asking for the Enfranchisement of the Women of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1874, BY FRANCIS MILLER, Esq., Associate Counsel with Hon. A. G. Riddlein the cases of Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration,and Mary Webster vs. The Judges of Election,now pending in the…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 2 of General Collections copy JK1901 .M64
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 3 of General Collections copy 3
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 4 of General Collections copy 4 “Whereas the Congress of the United States is the legislative body having exclusive jurisdiction over the District of Columbia: therefore “We respectfully pray your Honorable Bodies for the passage of an act amending and act entitled ‘An act to provide a government for the District of Columbia,’ approved February 21, 1871, by striking the word ‘male’ from the seventh section of said act,…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 5 of General Collections copy 5 three years ago, and submitted the question of the rights of the women of this District to vote to judicial determination before the court provided for them by the wisdom of Congress, and bring with us the opinion of that tribunal that we were correct in claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment clothed women with the right to vote, and affirming that all that…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 6 of General Collections copy 6 to that subject in the Constitution was contained in section second of Article I, in the following words: “The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States; and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.” This language plainly…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 7 of General Collections copy 7 to interfere with the enjoyment of the rights of citizens. The Fourteenth Amendment says: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” But if Mr. Bates is correct, suffrage is not a privilege or immunity of a citizen unless it has been expressly conferred upon him, and therefore this amendment…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 8 of General Collections copy 8 HAmendment conferred certain rights upon the colored man it was not necessary to pass the Civil-Rights Bill, that “it was not necessary, but it was well to do it to prevent doubts and differences of opinion.” But if the opinion of Attorney-General Bates (which is the only alternative to the one which we maintain) be true, then, as I have already shown, the…
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874
  • Image 9 of General Collections copy The Remainder of this Book States the value of Suffrage.
    • Contributor: Shaw, Anna Howard - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Miller, Francis - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
    • Date: 1874

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Title

  • Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1874

Names

  • Miller, Francis
  • Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919, former owner
  • Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, inscriber
  • United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1874.

Headings

  • -  Women--Suffrage--United States

Notes

  • -  LAC tnb 2019-07-31 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC knj 2022-07-07 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC knj 2022-08-10 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 8 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1901 .M64
  • JK1881 .N357 sec. I, no. 99, #2 [No. 2] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplate. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
  • HQ1114 .M5 no. 52

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 07033363

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Chicago citation style:

Miller, Francis, Anna Howard Shaw, Susan B Anthony, United States Congress. House. Committee On The Judiciary, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, and Susan B. Anthony Collection. Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1874. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/07033363/.

APA citation style:

Miller, F., Shaw, A. H., Anthony, S. B., United States Congress. House. Committee On The Judiciary, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection & Susan B. Anthony Collection. (1874) Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, Printers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/07033363/.

MLA citation style:

Miller, Francis, et al. Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C.: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1874. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/07033363/>.