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Federal Suffrage Circular

I, Section 2: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States." This, Justice Story said, "conferred a general citizenship on the citizens of each State."

In Wells vs. Bain, Judge Agnew, referring to the axiom that all just government is founded on the consent of the people, said: "The people here meant are the whole, those who constitute the entire State, male and female citizens."

Under the constitution of New Jersey women voted for the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, therefore they had a part in framing the Constitution, and they voted for the delegates to the New Jersey Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution. What a farce it is to construe the Constitution which women had helped to establish for the Nation which they had to establish for the Nation, which they had helped to build, in such a way as to prevent was framed to secure!

Woman Is a Citizen.

Women tried to vote under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments—Miss Anthony and many others. Mrs. Minor took her case from the Missouri courts to the United States Supreme Court. The Court decided that the