The Woman's Right of Marital SupportUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1923 |
Términos y frases comunes
age groups amendment Anna Howard Shaw Anne Hutchinson average base is less born in wedlock Boston boys Bureau Publication Carrie Chapman Catt cause cent child children born children of illegitimate civil compared Dakota days of sickness death rate deserted divorce Earnings of Father Elizabeth Cady Stanton excess factory female mortality female operatives female rate figures Frances Wright function girls Governor Health high mortality higher husband Illegitimacy illegitimate birth industrial infant mortality rate infants born infants of illegitimate institution Kansas legislature legitimate Lucretia Mott male marriage married women Massachusetts morbidity of women mortality among infants mother motherhood non-operatives non-support number of deaths Paulina Wright Davis percentage physical population proportion ratification reported Rhode Island right to vote school suffrage shown where base South Dakota statistics suffragists tality Rate Total tuberculosis U. S. Children's Bureau United wage-earning wedlock Wilhelm Weinberg Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Woman's Rights York
Pasajes populares
Página 90 - Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Section '2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Página 86 - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
Página 70 - That any husband who shall, without just cause, desert or wilfully neglect or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances...
Página 70 - ... child or children under the age of sixteen years in destitute or necessitous circumstances. shall be guilty of a crime, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the County jail not exceeding two years, or both, with or without hard labor, in the discretion of the court.
Página 86 - He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women — the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.
Página 86 - He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration. He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction which he considers most honorable to himself.
Página 86 - He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master — the law giving him...
Página 9 - PEEHAPS in no way is the moral progress of mankind more clearly shown, than by contrasting the position of women among savages with their position among the most advanced of the civilized.
Página 91 - At all subsequent elections, however, in any territory hereafter organized by congress, as well as at all elections in territories already organized, the qualifications of voters and of holding office shall be such as may be prescribed by the legislative assembly of each territory; subject, nevertheless, to the following restrictions on the power of the legislative assembly, namely: First.
Página 72 - ... of justice, the case seems to us too clear for dispute. As one of expediency, the more thoroughly it is examined the stronger it will appear. That women have as good a claim as men have, in point of personal right, to the suffrage, or to a place in the jurybox, it would be difficult for any one to deny.