DV - Citations Flashcards
The women of Australia and New Zealand can vote, and help make the laws. Are the labor conditions better there than they are in England, where the suffragettes are making such a heroic struggle?
Does there exist a greater motherhood, happier and freer children than in England? Is woman there no longer considered a mere sex commodity? Has she emancipated herself from the Puritanical double standard of morality for men and women? Certainly none but the ordinary female stump politician will dare answer these questions in the affirmative. If that be so, it seems ridiculous to point to Australia and New Zealand as the Mecca of equal suffrage accomplishments.
Emma Goldman, “Woman Suffrage,” 1911
As to our own States where women vote, and which are constantly being pointed out as examples of marvels,
what has been accomplished there through the ballot that women do not to a large extent enjoy in other States; or that they could not achieve through energetic efforts without the ballot?
Emma Goldman, “Woman Suffrage,” 1911
True, in the suffrage States women are guaranteed equal rights to property; but of what avail is that right to
the mass of women without property, the thousands of wage workers, who live from hand to mouth? That equal suffrage did not, and cannot, affect their condition…
Emma Goldman, “Woman Suffrage,” 1911
“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. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
“Blending religious conviction (the ideal of Christian evangelical benevolence) with science (social evolutionary theories) and political ideology (progressivism),..
…white proponents of woman’s rights helped create new roles for themselves that explicitly maintained the racial hierarchies that were based on the presumption that Anglo-American Protestants were culturally, as well as biologically, superior
to other peoples.”
Newman, Michelle Louise [1999], White Women’s Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
“unable to free labor from”
“the thraldom of political bossism.” (Goldman, Woman Suffrage,1911)
“equal suffrage has but slightly affected the economic conditions of women…
…That women do not receive equal pay for equal work, and that, though woman in Colorado has enjoyed school suffrage since 1876, women teachers are paid less than in California.”
Dr. Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury, Equal Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony, no doubt an exceptional type of woman, was not only indifferent but antagonistic to labor;
nor did she hesitate to manifest her antagonism when, in 1869, she advised women to take the places of striking printers in New York
(Emma Goldman, 1911)
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress:
but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector”
Section 1, article 2, Constitution of the United States (1776)
“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”
Section 2, Article 1, Constitution of the United States (1776)
The American Revolution failed to impose
“a national conception of voting rights” [Keyssar,
2000, p. 24].
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by
adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons”
Section 2, Article 1, Constitution of the United States
“Every freemen of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this state for the space of one whole year next before the day of election for representatives, and paid public taxes during that time, shall enjoy the right of an elector: Provided always, that
sons of freeholders of the age of twenty one years shall be intitled to vote although they have not paid taxes.”
PA Constitution
“… you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken—and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to…
…subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet— Charm by accepting, by submitting sway. Yet have our humor most when we obey…”
Abigail to John Adams, May 7, 1776
“[A]ll inhabitants of this Colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds
proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote for twelve months immediately preceding the election, shall…
…be entitled to vote for Representatives in Council and Assembly; and also for all other public officers, that shall be elected by the people of the county at large”
NJ Constitution, October 1776
