Broadside : The Crowning Constitutional Argument. 1873
Citizenship
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York
Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of 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 Congress 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.
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
1873-01-20
United States. Congress (42nd, 3rd session : 1872-1873)
ALMS.1873.01 "A Memorial to Mary E. Walker"
1 sheet ([1] p.)
English
ALMS.1873.02a
Washington, D.C.
The Congressional Globe. 37th Congress, 2d session, New series No. 151. May 30, 1862
Abolition
Law --United States --Periodicals.
Secession
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
United States --Politics and government
United States --Politics and government --Periodicals.
The Congressional Globe contains the records for sessions of the U.S. Congress including summaries of proceedings, letters, speeches, and some legislation for the Senate and House of Representatives.
This issue includes a debate on an amendment to an internal tax bill, proposed by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, "that any person who shall claim the service or labor for life of any other person under the laws of any State shall pay, on account of such person so claimed, the sum of ten dollars." The amendment was later rejected.
United States. Congress.
Washington, D.C. : John C. Rives
1862-05-30
14 p.
English
ALMS.1862.01
Washington, D.C.