"The Legal Effect of Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment on the Now Existing Election Laws and Regulations of Alabama."
Statement to the Alabama Legislature, possibly written by James Weatherly, explaining that when the federal women's suffrage amendment is ratified, women in Alabama will be eligible to register, regardless of any conflicting state legislation. He argues, however, that since women previously di...
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Alabama documents Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950; Legislation--Alabama; Legislation--United States; United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment; United States--Politics and government--1865-1933; Women--Suffrage--Alabama; Women--Suffrage--United States |
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Statement to the Alabama Legislature, possibly written by James Weatherly, explaining that when the federal women's suffrage amendment is ratified, women in Alabama will be eligible to register, regardless of any conflicting state legislation. He argues, however, that since women previously did not have the right to vote, they should not be subject to "disqualifying obstacles" (such as back payment of poll taxes) that would not have applied to them before: "A new right have been thus created, woman can suffer no disability because of non-compliance with pre-requisites - (such as registration, or payment of poll tax) with which she has had no opportunity to comply, and has been under no duty to perform. She is no longer hampered by the past, and must bear no burdens in the future for being a woman, and she and man must go to the ballot box as equals. She cannot be charged with any delinquency or confusion, which was not created or contributed to, by her default; and all disqualifying obstacles whether of substance or machinery, erected against or resulting from her 'previous condition' of disfranchisement, must vanish and become as naught." He also recommends that, in order to protect "our suffrage system," the Alabama Legislature take "provide in advance such machinery as may be necessary to avoid trouble": "After ratification any election held under any law, or election machinery which deprives women of the opportunity to do the things required of all other voters as pre-requisites for voting, could be invalidated. If our suffrage system contained this vice or taint, our whole system might be invalidated." |
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Q0000117457Q117457"The Legal Effect of Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment on the Now Existing Election Laws and Regulations of Alabama."Statement to the Alabama Legislature, possibly written by James Weatherly, explaining that when the federal women's suffrage amendment is ratified, women in Alabama will be eligible to register, regardless of any conflicting state legislation. He argues, however, that since women previously did not have the right to vote, they should not be subject to "disqualifying obstacles" (such as back payment of poll taxes) that would not have applied to them before: "A new right have been thus created, woman can suffer no disability because of non-compliance with pre-requisites - (such as registration, or payment of poll tax) with which she has had no opportunity to comply, and has been under no duty to perform. She is no longer hampered by the past, and must bear no burdens in the future for being a woman, and she and man must go to the ballot box as equals. She cannot be charged with any delinquency or confusion, which was not created or contributed to, by her default; and all disqualifying obstacles whether of substance or machinery, erected against or resulting from her 'previous condition' of disfranchisement, must vanish and become as naught." He also recommends that, in order to protect "our suffrage system," the Alabama Legislature take "provide in advance such machinery as may be necessary to avoid trouble": "After ratification any election held under any law, or election machinery which deprives women of the opportunity to do the things required of all other voters as pre-requisites for voting, could be invalidated. If our suffrage system contained this vice or taint, our whole system might be invalidated."1919 circa19191910-1919Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950; Legislation--Alabama; Legislation--United States; United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment; United States--Politics and government--1865-1933; Women--Suffrage--Alabama; Women--Suffrage--United StatesTextCorrespondenceAlabama Equal Suffrage AssociationAlabama Equal Suffrage Association recordsLPR97, Box 1Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130EnglishThis material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.600 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/12704 |
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