"Violative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other citizen; the right to regulate not including the right to prohibit the franchise;" that "those provisions of the several State constitutions which exclude women from the franchise on account of sex, are violative alike of the letter and spirit of the Federal Constitution;" and that "as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution have established the right of women to the elective franchise, we demand of the present Congress a declaratory act which shall secure ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper |
