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“There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer ...
New York: The state makes it a penalty to perform an abortion, with a criminal sentence of between 4 and 20 years in prison. [8] Pennsylvania: Married women are granted control over their earnings. [4] California: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] Montana: Married women are granted separate economy. [4]
If a state constitution limited suffrage to male citizens of the United States, then women in that state did not have voting rights. [22] After U.S. Supreme Court decisions between 1873 and 1875 denied voting rights to women in connection with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, suffrage groups shifted their efforts to advocating for a new ...
6. "The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen." Louis Brandeis, American Lawyer and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
The case describes women as having dependency upon men in a manner such that women needed their rights to be preserved by the state; their "rights" were in effect, to have maternal gender roles, again however to the loss of some of their contractual liberties. The quotes for the decision follows: woman has always been dependent upon man." [4]
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system.
50. "I just want women to always feel in control. Because we're capable, we're so capable." — Nicki Minaj. 51. "You draw your own box. You introduce yourself as who you are. . . .
Women's Political Union of New Jersey. Suffrage was available to most women and African Americans in New Jersey immediately upon the formation of the state. The first New Jersey state constitution (of 1776) allowed any person who owned a certain value of property to become a voter. In 1790, the state constitution was changed to specify that ...