Citizenship
Mother and child
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Parents
Patriotism]]>
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Property]]>
Buttons
Campaign buttons
Campaign insignia
Citizenship
Political campaigns]]>

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Citizenship
Elections
Party affiliation
Republican Party (New York, N.Y.)
United States--New York--Cohoes
United States--New York--Albany
United States--New York--Watervliet
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>
Education (Higher)
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Great Britain
Women's rights--Great Britain]]>
Smith, E.M.A.]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
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citizenship, guaranteed in by the Constitution through the Fourteenth Amendment. Since women were citizens, they already had the right to vote. She never accepted the idea that women needed another constitutional amendment to vote, and referred to this as her "crowning constitutional argument."

Her speech to the Senate in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two. At the bottom of page two is a handwritten note: "Introduced in the Senate...Jan. 16th 1873"]]>
"The Crowning Constitutional Argument"]]>
Dulwich Conservative Association
Dulwich (London, England)
Great Britain. Representation of the People Act (1918)
Politics
Unionist Party
Voting
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain]]>
1. What Politics are.
2. The Party System of Government
3. The Duties of Citizenship
4. The Unionist Party]]>
Constitutional amendments
Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore
Literacy
Maryland. Constitution (1910)
Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates
United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Women--Suffrage--Maryland]]>
"possess any one of the following qualifications, to wit: (a) If such person is qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates; or (b) if he or she can read of write, from dictation, any paragraph or sentence of more than five lines contained in the Constitution of Maryland; or (c) if he or she is assessed with property in said city to the amount of $300 and has paid taxes thereon for at least two years preceding the election at which he or she offers to vote."
The bill was defeated. The Maryland legislature did not amend the state constitution to allow women to vote until after the 19th amendment was passed in 1920. Maryland finally ratified the amendment on May 29, 1941.]]>
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Suffrage--Great Britain]]>
Are women citizens?
Does law concern women?
Is direct representation desirable in the interest of the people?

The reverse contains information about the NUWSS, including a list of the officers, office hours, and mission statement.]]>
Elections
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
United States--New York--Albany
Women consumers
Women employees
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>