Book/Printed Material The constitutional rights of the women of the United States : an address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888 National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 1888 No 10 THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE Women of the United States. An Address BEFORE THE International Council of Women, WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30, 1888. BY ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER. Hartford...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Suffrage - Speeches ZX Records NO 1 (10)- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 1 The Constitutional Rights OF THE Women of the United States. An Address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D. C., March 30, 1883. BY ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER. In the month...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 2 and the preamble you know, is the key to what follows; it is the concrete, general statement of the great principles which subsequent articles express in detail. The preamble says: “We,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 3 themselves and their posterity, through the votes of men, because they cannot control these votes and turn them to high moral uses in government; on the contrary, our brothers, the best...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 4 in the dusty pigeon-holes of his office, and the honorable gentleman who asked me with a smile of contempt “How many women really want to vote?” was surprised at the record,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 5 blessings of liberty, as though the framers of the constitution were autocrats, with power to bestow or withhold liberties, but secure the blessings of liberty to those who already had the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 assertion that they and their sex alone have the right to make and execute the laws that I and my daughters are to live under; that they are born to rule,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 be saved, and he that believeth not shall be condemned,” “No man can serve two masters,” “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things,”...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 Here, then, you have, I say, the only argument against the right of women to vote contained in the constitution of the United States, and briefly stated it is this: The...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 This is so plainly true that women did actually vote in a few instances in the earlier days, and they only ceased to do so because they did not appreciate its...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 just here, because Judge Hunt's decision against her was based partly on this very article, and it is time that his interpretation of it and the consequences thereof were fully made...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 And by the way, a question is often made as to what this right to vote shall be called—whether a natural right or mere privilege. I do not care for names....- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 the right of trial by jury—that is, he decided the case himself, and caused the clerk of the court to record the verdict of guilty without reference to the jury, who...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 Thus you see how in this right to vote is wrapped up the great volume of our cherished rights. Judge Hunt began with denying to women their citizen's right to vote,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 allegiance to the government and protected by it were properly citizens, and others that only those who were accredited legal voters could properly be called citizens. Then, when the Republican party...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 Please notice, now, that formerly each state had charge of its own elections and the United States had no right to interfere with the elections in any state even though the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 dragged from one court to another, harassed during the space of nearly a year, tried at last in another city, and fined for the crime for voting for the President of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 before the law as nothing else could do; therefore he virtually remitted the fine, and by so doing sealed forever his own condemnation. Do you ask, why recount this trial and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 I said in the beginning that women ought to exercise their constitutional right to vote, and men ought to help them to do so by every means in their power. And...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 who say we have too many voters already. No, we have not too many. On the contrary, to take away this ballot even from the ignorant and perverse is to invite...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 Judge Hunt and the Right of Trial by Jury. BY JOHN HOOKER, HARTFORD, CONN. In the recent trial of Susan B. Anthony for voting (illegally, as was claimed, on the ground...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 form of ballots, to the inspectors, to be placed in the voting boxes. There was nothing on the outside of these papers to indicate what they were, and the contents were...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 rule of law that there must exist an intention to do an illegal act, to make an act a crime. It is, of course, not necessary that a person perpetrating a...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 was illegal, namely, did Miss Anthony vote knowing that she had no right to vote. Now, many people will say that Miss Anthony ought to have known that she had no...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 This certainly makes it clear that the question was not “a pure question of law,” and that there was “something to go to the jury.” And this would be so, even...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 power over the matter. It is for them finally to say what their verdict shall be, and the judge has no power beyond that of instruction upon the law involved in...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 The writer has intended this article for general rather than professional readers, and has therefore not encumbered it with authorities; but he has stated only rules and principles that are well...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 REMARKS OF MRS. HOOKER BEFORE THE Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, At Washington, in January, 1871. In Reply to a Suggestion of the Committee as to the Propriety of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 of liberty and responsibility into legislation; and we don't agree—we quarrel bitterly and almost come to blows again; but election days cool us off, acting like a court room itself upon...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 so ought to be kept out as long as that. To-day, after years of careful observation and of study of the question, I would not require a day more than the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 And if men cannot live in this country in safe homes unless their neighbor men are enfranchised, can they live without enfranchised women any more? If you cannot live in safety...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 31 OPINIONS OF LEADING THINKERS ON THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. RICHARD HOOKER, 1594. “Law to bind all, must be assented to by all; and there can be no legal appearance...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 32 REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY. “One principal cause of the failure of so many magnificent schemes, social, political, religious, which have followed each other age after age, has been this, that in almost...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 33 much to elevate them in all their aims, and conform them to higher standards of justice. * * * The Participation of woman in civil affairs is neither a new nor...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 34 REV. S. J. MAY, SYRACUSE, N. Y. “The true family is the type of the true state. It is the absence of the feminine from the conduct of the governments of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 35 THE FOLLOWING AUTHORITIES RELATE TO THE POLITICAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY. “The words ‘people’ of the United States and ‘citizens’ are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing; they...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 36 THE DUTCH PUBLICIST, THORBECKE. “The right of citizenship is the right of voting in the government of the local, provincial, or national community of which one is a member. In this...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 37 SUPREME COURT OF KENTUCKY. “No one can, therefore, in the correct sense of the term, be a citizen of a state who is not entitled, upon the terms prescribed by the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hooker, Isabella Beecher - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1900