2d says

That being kept at any almshouse or other asylum, at public
expense, nor being confined at any public prison, shall
deprive a person of his residence,

and hence his vote. Thus is the right of voting most sacredly
hedged about. The only seeming permission in our constitution for
the disfranchisement of women is in section 1st of Article 2d:

Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, etc.,
shall be entitled to vote.

But I insist that in view of the explicit assertions of the equal
right of the whole people, both in the preamble and previous
article of the constitution, this omission of the adjective
"female" in the second, should not be construed into a denial;
but, instead, counted as of no effect. Mark the direct
prohibition:

"No member of this State shall be disfranchised, unless by
the 'law of the land,' or the judgment of his peers."

"The law of the land," is the United States Constitution; and
there is no provision in that document that can be fairly
construed into a permission to the States to deprive any class of
their citizens of their right to vote. Hence New York can get no
power from that source to disfranchise one entire half of her
members. Nor has "the judgment of their peers" been pronounced
against women exercising their right to vote. No disfranchised
person is allowed to be judge or juror--and none but
disfranchised persons can be women's peers; nor has the
Legislature passed laws excluding them on account of idiocy or
lunacy; nor yet the courts convicted them of bribery, larceny, or
any infamous crime. Clearly, then, there is no constitutional
ground for the exclusion of women from the ballot-box in the
State of New York. No barriers whatever stand to-day between
women and the exercise of their right to vote save those of
precedent and prejudice.

The clauses of the United States Constitution, cited by our
opponents as giving power to the States to disfranchise any
classes of citizens they shall please, are contained in sections
2d and 4th of article 1st. The second says:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
chosen every second year by the people of the several
States; and the electors in each State shall hav