to deprive the female citizen of
the free, public, political, expression of opinion than the
female citizen has to deprive the male citizen thereof.

The sovereign will of the people is expressed in our written
Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. The
Constitution makes no distinction of sex. The Constitution
defines a woman born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, to be a citizen. It
recognizes the right of citizens to vote. It declares that the
right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

Women, white and black, belong to races, although to different
races. A race of people comprises all the people, male and
female. The right to vote can not be denied on account of race.
All people included in the term race have the right to vote,
unless otherwise prohibited. Women of all races are white, black,
or some intermediate color. Color comprises all people, of all
races and both sexes. The right to vote can not be denied on
account of color. All people included in the term color have the
right to vote unless otherwise prohibited.

With the right to vote sex has nothing to do. Race and color
include all people of both sexes. All people of both sexes have
the right to vote, unless prohibited by special limiting terms
less comprehensive than race or color. No such limiting terms
exist in the Constitution. Women, white and black, have from time
immemorial groaned under what is properly termed in the
Constitution "previous condition of servitude." Women are the
equals of men before the law, and are equal in all their rights
as citizens. Women are debarred from voting in some parts of the
United States, although they are allowed to exercise that right
elsewhere. Women were formerly permitted to vote in places where
they are now debarred therefrom. The naturalization laws of the
United States expressly provide for the naturalization of women.
But the right to vote has only lately been definitely declared by
the Constitution to be inalienable, under three distinct
conditions--in all of which woman is clearly embraced.

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