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orWomen’s Rights That \vomon are elU'/.eus no ono denies—that they are out it led to exercise all tlu? righ’s ami privileges a mi enjoy all the immunities of main citizen* is a question which is dos-tinoil lo bo conspicuous in law ami in Judith's. Tho Kouvteenth Amendment to the lt;\msliiution of thoCnit-od iS tat oh declares : “No Stale shal “make or enforce any law which “shall ahvidiro the privilege ov im-“mnnitios of citizens of the United “States.” Tho nilo or construction applied to all laws, fundamental or statutory, favors tho claims of the women. Hie rights of citizens are never abridged, hut often extended by implication. There arc many persons of undoubted legal ability who believe that before long the courts will hold that female citizens have precisely the same rights as male citizens.The Iowa courts have admitted female lawyers to the bar, and the Governor has appointed them notaries public. The people of Mitchell county, in the same State, have also elected a woman Superintendent of Schools. Having some doubt as to her eligibility, the State Superintendent, to whom the case way referred, obtained the opinion of the Attorney General for the State, in which the validity of her claim is fully sustained. The Attorney General says : “The privilege of the “citizen cannot betaken away or de-“nied by intendment or implication ; “and women are citizens as well and “as much as men.” If this opinion be sustained by the Iowa courts— should the case go to them for decision, the pronoun “he,” which occurs frequently in the act creating the office of County Superintendent of Schools, will have to be put down in the Iowa grammars as of the “common gender.” This would,perhaps, not be very far in advance of the recent decision of the English Court of Exchequer, in which the word “man” is declared to include “woman.” The young Territory of Wyoming, not choosing to wait for the slow growth of outside public opinion, and the tardy action of courts, has bravely passed an act, Which has become a law, allowing women to vote and hold office. As it is short,and to the point,we quote it entire:“Be it enacted by tho Council and House of Representatives of Wyoming Territory :“Section 1. That every woman of the age of twenty-one years residing in this Territory, may at every election to be hokleu under the laws thereof cast her vote. And her rights to the elective franchise and to hold office shall be the same under the election laws of the Territory51 “Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.”Tiiesc are among the numerous proofs of the advance that has been made in the lust few years by the advocates of Women’s Rights. The tendency is all in one direction, and it is clear that American women will soon have, ii they wish to exercise all their prerogatives with intelligence, to enlarge their sphere of knowledge so as to include topics not treated of in Miss Beecher’s cook book, or in Madame DemoresL’s fashion magazine.—Chicago Post.
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Chariton Democrat
Chariton, Iowa, US
Tue, Jan 11, 1870
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