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Lipsky, 63 N.E.2d 642 (Ill. 1945), the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, did not allow a married woman to stay registered to vote under her birth name, due to "the long-established custom, policy and rule of the common law among English-speaking peoples whereby a woman's name is changed by marriage and her husband's surname becomes ...
According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, an authoritative commentary on the English common law on which the American legal system is modeled, "By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage", [39] referring to the ...
The video, which began circulating last week, opens with a woman about to enter the polling booth after her husband, looking nervously back at him before she makes her choice. She locks eyes with ...
A husband or master is legally entitled to beat and restrain his wife, child or servant as long as he did not kill them and disturb public peace. [33] Husbands were also entitled to unrestricted access to his wife's body until the late 20th century where the concept of marital rape was recognized and criminalized. [33]
The ad was produced by Vote Common Good, a nonprofit organization aimed at influencing religiously motivated voters. “To say, ‘Oh why don’t you lie to your husband’ as a publicly advocated ...
After her husband died last year, Georgia's pivotal role in the 2024 election became a national conversation. When early voting rolled around, she decided it was time to make her voice heard.
Gillian White may refer to: Gillian White (actress) (born 1975), American actress; Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law;
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).