Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: "Woman's Legal Right to the Ballot," in Forum...
...right of suffrage is a fundamental right of citizenship and included in the term "privileges and immunities of the United States."- Abbott vs. Bayley, 6 Pick, 92; Corfield vs. Correll, 2 Kent, 72; Fifteenth Amendment...
...Women need the right of suffrage for self-protection. (a) They need it for the protection of their property and civil rights.- T. W. Higginson in "Common Sense about Women," p. 199. (b) There is no virtual representation for women.- Charles Sumner, speech, March...
...Women desire the right of suffrage. (a) They are asking for it through their representative women. (b) They have sent memorials to Congress and State legislatures.- H. R. Mis. Doc., 46th Cong., 2nd Sess...
...political right is absolute and of universal application and the dogma that suffrage is a natural right has no support either in reason or experience.- Forum...