Book/Printed Material Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy NATIONAL SUFFRAGE LIBRARY WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT COMPILED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT No effort is made in the following pages to present an argument for woman suffrage for no American…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy LIBRARY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT SUBJECT Section VII Woman Suffrage Campaign NO 60- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy NATIONAL SUFFRAGE LIBRARY WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT COMPILED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT PUBLISHED BY National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK 1917- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy COPYRIGHT, 1917 NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO The Congress of the United States AND THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES. IT GOES WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy INTRODUCTION No effort is made in the following pages to present an argument for woman suffrage. No careful observer of the modern trend of human affairs, doubts that “governments of the people”…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy majority every year except in 1890 and 1896. Twice only has it gone to vote in the Senate. The first time was on January 25, 1887; the second, March 19, 1914. In…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy graduates, thousands of teachers in universities, colleges and public schools, physicians, lawyers, dentists, journalists, heads of businesses, representatives of every trade and occupation and thousands of the nation's homekeepers. The former group…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I Why the Federal Amendment? By Carrie Chapman Catt PAGE There are seven reasons for Federal enfranchisement of women. Other countries have so enfranchised women. Conditions of men's…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy s tates have no or infrequent Constitutional Conventions. New Hampshire. Delaware Constitution alone amended by Legislature or Convention without popular vote. Thirty states gave foundations male suffrage by this easy means 12…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy Temperance Union provers forty-seven varieties of corruption. South Dakota. Foreign vote defeated Woman Suffrage there. Figures of some countries. Relation between Prohibition and Woman Suffrage votes. West Virginia. Illiteracy and conservatism defeated…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CHAPTER VI Objections to the Federal Amendment by Carrie Chapman Catt States Rights objection discussed. U. S. Constitution twice amended recently under Democratic administration. Federal Prohibition Amendment introduced by Southern Democrat. Even…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy t wenty criminals is a woman. Election conditions in equal suffrage states. Objection that Prohibition sentiment is stronger than Suffrage sentiment since former has spread faster. Prohibition can be established by statute…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CHAPTER I WHY THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT? Woman Suffrage is coming—no intelligent person in the United States or in the world will deny that fact. The most an intelligent opponent expects to accomplish…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 2 full suffrage in all other elections by act of their Provincial Parliaments. * By such enactment the Isle of Man, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Denmark gave equal suffrage in…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 3 Rangoon (Burmah), Bombay (India), the Province of Baroda (India), the Province of Voralberg (Austria), and Laibach (Austria) the same statement applies. In Bohemia, Russia and various Provinces of Austria and Germany,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 4 of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without “representation” and still live under a government to which they have given…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 5 groups of recently naturalized and even unnaturalized foreigners, Indians, Negroes, large numbers of illiterates, ne'er-do-wells, and drunken loafers. The Jews, denied the vote in all our colonies, and the Catholics, denied…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 At least three-fourths of the present electors secured their votes through direct naturalization or that of their forefathers. Congress determines conditions of citizenship and state constitutions fix qualifications of voters. In…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 for amendments by such difficult processes that they either have never been amended or have not been amended when the subject is in the least controversial. Their provisions not infrequently are…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 constitutional amendments. Since election laws do not protect suffrage referenda, suffragists justly demand the method prescribed by our national constitution to appeal their case from male voters at large to the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 whenever they change their residence to any one of the 37 other states (except Illinois, where they lose only a portion of their privileges), but they enjoy no national protection in…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 7. Treatment of Question Demands Intelligence. The handicaps of a popular vote upon a question of human liberty which must be described in technical language will be clear to all who…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 are ready for it. The removal of the question to the higher court of the Congress and the Legislatures of the several states means that it will be established when the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CHAPTER II. STATE CONSTITUTIONAL OBSTRUCTIONS * Mary Summer Boyd * Table of difficulties in each state is to be found in the Appendix. At its last session the Arkansas Legislature passed a…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 constitutional amendments; or because once past the legislature, constitutional technicalities can keep them away from the polls; or because, safely past these hazards, a minority vote of the people can defeat…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 Alabama have occasionally succeeded in passing amendments favored by politicians, by resorting to clever tricks to circumvent the constitutional handicaps. Only by outwitting the framers have they been able to make…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 require a special “constitutional majority” of two-thirds or three-fifths favorable in the vote of both houses on an amendment bill. * In South Carolina and Mississippi it must pass two legislatures…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 referendum not by a majority on the amendment but by a majority of all voting for candidates at this general election. * * These states are Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska,…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 Ind. 104) to mean a majority of all votes cast at the election, but in a later case (in re Denny) it was taken, exactly as it reads, to mean all…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 rules are in a class by themselves. For the first twenty-five years of statehood a three-fourths vote of both houses of the Legislature ratified by three-fourths of the electors voting, with…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 convention alone and these conventions are held infrequently. Only in Delaware is the Constitution amendment to-day by act of the Legislature without the people's vote and without any technical requirements except…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 states wanted to hold out inducements to male immigrant labor. To-day any male once naturalized, and in some states before he is naturalized, becomes automatically a voting citizen of any state…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy CHAPTER III. ELECTION LAWS AND REFERENDA To establish a “government of the people” is to follow an ideal set by the growth of democratic principles, but, after such government has been established…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 declared that he believes the amendment was counted out in that state. An investigation has revealed forty-seven varieties of fraud or violation of the election law in forty-four counties in the…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 might be punished, but the election would stand. In New York, in 1915, the question was submitted to the voters as to whether a constitutional convention should be called. The convention…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 is reference made to a recount. The law is vague and incomplete in nearly all of these States. In some of these, including Michigan, where the suffrage amendment is declared to…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 imprisonment, but only one state (Ohio) provides in definite terms for punishment of bribery as a part of the penalty in an election contest. In most cases proof of bribery does…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 restored to citizenship. These cases reveal a disgraceful provision in the Ohio law, by which the briber is given immunity if he will turn State's evidence on the bribed; the vote-buyer…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 is used also, the emblem is the real guide. New York does not even relegate this emblem to the top of the column. The emblem is placed before the name of…- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
- Date: 1917
About this Item
Title
- Woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment
Summary
- This collection of essays focuses on the various arguments for and against woman suffrage by federal constitutional amendment rather than by individual states. An essay by Henry Wade Rogers provides an interesting counterpoint to another volume in this collection, "Woman's Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment," by Henry St. George Tucker [Section VII, no. 380].
Names
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, comp
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
- National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York : Published by National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
Contents
- Why the federal amendment? / by Carrie Chapman Catt. -- State constitutional obstructions / by Mary Sumner Boyd. -- Election laws and referenda / by Carrie Chapman Catt. -- The story of the 1916 referenda / by Carrie Chapman Catt. -- Federal action and states rights / by Henry Wade Rogers. -- Objections to the federal amendment / by Carrie Chapman Catt.
Headings
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
Medium
- 8 p.l., 100 p. ; 19 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF4895.Z9 C3
- KF4895.Z9 C3 Copy 3 Another copy. Bookplate: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the estate of Carrie Chapman Catt, Oct. 22, 1947.
- JK1881 .N357 sec. VII, no. 60 Another copy. 20 cm. Dust jacket. Bookplate inside front cover: library, Carrie Chapman Catt. Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Nov. 1, 1938.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 17004988
Online Format
- online text
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