Women's Suffrage and the Constitution: Chapter I, Reason 6

5. Equal Status of Men and Wo...

7. Treatment of Question Dema...

6. National Significance of Question Demands It.

Woman suffrage in every other country is a National question. With eleven American states and nearly half the territory of the civilized world already won; with the statement of the press still unchallenged that women voters were “the balance of power“ which decided the last presidential election, the movement has reached a position of national significance in the United States. Any policy which seeks to shift responsibility or to procrastinate action, is, to use the mildest phraseology, unworthy of the Congress in whose charge the making of American political history reposes.