Means of securing them provided by this democratic republican government - the ballot
For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the
people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the
land. By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.
fouers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is