Book/Printed Material Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment : woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October, 1871 : Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster vs. The Judges of Election : argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs : with the opinions of the court National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy

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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     Mr. Sargeant 1871 No 6 Argument of Counsel AND OPINION OF THE Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, ON THE Woman's Suffrage Question. Judd & Detweiler, Printers, Washington, D. C.
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
    • Date: 1871
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Suffrage Speeches IX Records NO. 1 (6)
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     SUFFRAGE CONFERRED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Woman's Suffrage IN THE Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, IN GENERAL TERM, OCTOBER, 1871. Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, AND Sarah…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     ARGUMENT OF MR. RIDDLE. May it please the Court: Although my learned friend, Mr. Cook, who appears for the defense, is the demurrant, it has been arranged that in the argument we…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     4 of the plaintiffs, severally, but say, that as they are women they are not entitled to vote in the District of Columbia. That the seventh section of the organic act, the…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     5 and that ends the argument. And so I must go below words to things. These twin dragons of prejudice and proscription must be thrust by, and the foundations under the ground…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     6 and from that springs our right to govern others, is a natural right. This is the primary idea of American politics and the foundation of our Government. This was formulated in…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     7 The court thus sees this language was used by the most careful and scrupulous design. Having declared that all power is inherent in the people, words had to be used to…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     8 the regulations and laws of society? And, if an exception, from the nature of the case, could be felt in regard to persons who are idiots, infants, and insane, how can…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     9 of the several districts ought to have the right to vote at the election of the representatives,” &c. All of the inhabitants, says Montesquieu, ought to have the right to vote.…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     10 I read first from Mr. Anstey's Notes upon the Reform Act of Great Britain of 1867. The writer in his comment upon the words of the act, “every man of full…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     11 the bodily and mental powers, and others were inconsistent with the morality, or, at least, the decency of that sex.—(Id. 400.) And so again on pages 90 and 91: That there…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     12 borough, were, at a period long subsequent, produced before a “Committee of Privileged and Election,” presided over by the great parliamentary lawyer, Mr. Hakewell, as evidence for and against the respective…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     13 the right implies a duty, and the duty is co-equal and co-extensive with the right. The author quotes from Chief Justice Lee in Olive vs. Ingram, where he comments upon some…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     14 created by the parliamentary elector's trial bill of 1868, and which sits to revise the registration of voters, under the act of 1867, and from whom appeals lie to the court…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     15 written in the reign of James I., and some years before it was published, and yet no reference to them is made in any one of the editions of the “4th…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     16 suit of that kind from coming before the courts of this country in future, that the resolutions in question became the standing orders of the House of Commons. It was thereby…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     17 freehold franchise, even under the acts passed before 1832, greatly narrowing the basis of that suffrage there,) that, à fortiori, there was no such incapacity in boroughs of the common right…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     18 freeholders being in a state of coverture. With regard to coverture, it appears to be not generally known, that in the very case which was quoted by Mr. Shaen, that of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     19 authority the ghost of a dictum can alone be raised to question it. So that if the force of its language compels you to construe the Fourteenth Amendment as authorizing woman…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     20 unimportant rule, to correct a mere confusion of words which worked no grave harm, as is contended for. We know exactly what was the real wrong and injustice intended to be…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     21 Nor is there a word in any act of Congress or law of a State that confers suffrage upon the naturalized American as a thing incident to or consequent upon his…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     22 who are permitted to settle and stay in the country. Bound to the society by their residence, they are subject to the laws of the State while they reside in it;…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     23 brackets the expressive “U.S,” to indicate what he means—“native or naturalized, who has the privilege of voting for public officers, and who is qualified to fill offices in the gift of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     24 What a pity Judge Daniels had not been as accurate in his law as happy in his definitions. In quote from the dissenting opinion of Justice Curtis, on p. 581: Though…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     25 have compelled these learned courts and judges to so pronounce, and which enter into the definitions of the lexicographers, which gleam from the pages of political writers and historians, will constrain…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     26 It must be claimed by those who maintain that citizens merely as such, cannot vote, that the right of suffrage is neither a political privilege or immunity. Pray, then, under what…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     27 and says, “to which may be added the elective franchise as regulated and established by the laws and constitution of the State in which it is to be exercised.” And the…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     28 Justice Wylie. Then “citizen” does not, necessarily, imply the right to vote. Mr. Riddle. A citizen, or a man with the right to vote, may, undoubtedly, undergo a suspension of that…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     29 It is possible that those who framed the article were not themselves aware of the far-reaching character of its terms. They may have had in mind but one particular phase of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     30 those who framed the bill, or who proposed the measure in Parliament intended, is, for the purpose of construing the act, immaterial; for the words must speak for themselves. That the…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     31 a State, and citizens of the United States, being twenty-one years of age, or in any way abridged, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     32 more closely. “If the right of the male citizen of the United States to vote is denied.” See how it helps us to define the words “citizens of the United States,”…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     33 they would not be permitted to vote, notwithstanding. The other citizens would hinder their voting, would intimidate them, drive them away from the polls, and the State authorities might be unable…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     34 arose and declared to these obstinate rebels, you shall stop denying and abridging the right of these colored citizens to vote and make an end of it, and if you don't…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     35 Now, I concede your honors, that if the Fifteenth Amendment does confer suffrage, or remove the exclusion so that colored citizens can vote; if they have derived the franchise from that,…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     36 Amendment. They had it before, and this came in to protect and secure them in its enjoyment. Whence did they derive it? From the Fourteenth Amendment? If so, then did women…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     37 self-sacrificing devotion of woman; to which they gave their soul's offspring, their loves, and their lives; or, whether they are for a time longer to continue its vassals and serfs. That…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
    • Date: 1871
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    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     ARGUMENT OF FRANCIS MILLER. May it please your honors: I rise under embarrassment in view of what fell from the Court, at the commencement of the argument, in regard to the near…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
    • Date: 1871
  • Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
    Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871 | Woman's suffrage | Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question     39 and Disraeli advocate the granting of their demand, and Gladstone acquiesces; and, in our country, when Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, among the foremost women of…
    • Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie) - Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin) - Miller, Francis - Webster, Sarah E.
    • Date: 1871

About this Item

Title

  • Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment : woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October, 1871 : Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster vs. The Judges of Election : argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs : with the opinions of the court

Other Title

  • Woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October 1871
  • Woman's suffrage
  • Arguments of counsel and opinion of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the woman's suffrage question

Summary

  • Sara J. Spencer and Sarah E. Webster each brought cases before the court in the District of Columbia arguing that they were enfranchised by the Fourteenth Amendment. This pamphlet contains the arguments of their lawyers in this regard and the decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, denying their claim.

Names

  • Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin), 1816-1902
  • Miller, Francis, active 1871-1874
  • Spencer, Sara J. (Sara Jane), 1837-1909
  • Webster, Sarah E.
  • Clephane, James O. (James Ogilvie), 1842-1910
  • Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
  • District of Columbia. Supreme Court (1863-1936)
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
  • Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers, 1871.

Headings

  • -  Spencer, Sara J.--(Sara Jane),--1837-1909--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Webster, Sarah E.--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  United States.--Constitution.--14th Amendment
  • -  Women--Suffrage--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Arguments of A.G. Riddle and Francis Miller.

Medium

  • 72 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1911.D5 R5
  • JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 1, #6 Inscribed by the author. Bookplate: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938
  • KF228.S64 R53 1871

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 39023154

Online Format

  • online text
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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Riddle, A. G, Francis Miller, Sara J Spencer, Sarah E Webster, James O Clephane, Carrie Chapman Catt, District Of Columbia. Supreme Court, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, and Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment: woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October,: Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster vs. The Judges of Election: argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs: with the opinions of the court. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers, 1871. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/39023154/.

APA citation style:

Riddle, A. G., Miller, F., Spencer, S. J., Webster, S. E., Clephane, J. O., Catt, C. C. [...] Joseph Meredith Toner Collection. (1871) Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment: woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October,: Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster vs. The Judges of Election: argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs: with the opinions of the court. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/39023154/.

MLA citation style:

Riddle, A. G, et al. Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment: woman's suffrage in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in general term, October,: Sara J. Spencer vs. The Board of Registration, and Sarah E. Webster vs. The Judges of Election: argument of the counsel for the plaintiffs: with the opinions of the court. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers, 1871. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/39023154/>.