Book/Printed Material The Constitution, a title-deed to woman's franchise : a letter to Charles Sumner General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy The Golden Age TRACTS. No. 2. The Constitution Title-Deed to Woman's Franchise. A Letter to Charles Sumner. BY THEODORE TILTON. “How excellent franchise In Woman is.”— Chaucer. Published at the Office of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 2 of General Collections copy 9.9.13. Jul 18 09 THE CONSTITUTION A TITLE-DEED TO WOMAN'S FRANCHISE. “How excellent franchise In woman is.”— Chaucer. Charles Sumner, Senator of the United States, Honored Sir —I am asked by a...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 3 of General Collections copy 4 was first a citizen of Kentucky and thereby of the United States, but this Amendment makes him first a citizen of the United States and thereby of Kentucky. Or he may...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 4 of General Collections copy 5 long before it reached the Fourteenth Amendment, declared in the Fourth Article: “The citizens of each “state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities “of citizens in the several...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 6 Now, from these data, let me swiftly trace the practical progress of the elective franchise from its early restriction to white men to its subsequent inclusion of negroes and to its...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 7 “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United “States”:—thereby no longer permitting any state to say to any of its citizens, “You shall be denied the right “of Suffrage,:” but, on...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 8 rights of women, I am happy to remember that it was first brought into conspicuity by a woman. The anti-slavery controversy in England owed its final and victorious watchword, namely, “Immediate...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 9 to the National government. And Alexander H. Stephens understands this so well in the case of the negro that he wants the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments expunged in order that the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 10 Another objection is that, as the Constitution gives to the states the right of fixing the qualifications of voters, the states may make sex one of these. To this I reply...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 11 title-deed to Woman Suffrage; and some of these lesgislators voted for, and others against, these Amendments on this account. Furthermore, this discovery, being thus promulgated before the Amendments were adopted, became...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 12 “impair the vigor of the constitutional principle which “I announce. Whatever you enact for human rights “is constitutional; and this is the Supreme Law of the “land, anything in the constitution...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 13 franchise. But the very Amendments which thus secured this chief of all “privileges and immunities” to negroes, secured it at the same time to women. To deny to negroes in New...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 14 to men does not thereby refuse it to women. But the National Constitution puts an end to all this special pleading by comprehensively guaranteeing the right of suffrage to all citizens,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 15 and women have been constitutionally declared to be “citizens of the United States, and of the states wherein “they reside.” They have thus come into simultaneous possession of those “privileges and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 16 changes are needed to make this or some similar act as effective for women as for negroes, I leave to your own fruitful and suggestive mind. But my clients beg that...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 17 1866, as follows: “I do not hesitate to say that when “the slaves of our country became ‘citizens’ they took “their place in the ‘body-politic’ as a component part “of the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871
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Image 17 of General Collections copy The Golden Age A Weekly Journal devoted to the Free Discussion of all Living Questions of Church, State, Society, Literature, Art, and Moral Reform. Published every Wednesday at No. 9 Spruce Street...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Tilton, Theodore
- Date: 1871