of
attainder have been passed by the introduction of the word "male"
into all the State constitutions denying to woman the right of
suffrage, and thereby making sex a crime. A citizen disfranchised
in a republic is a citizen attainted. When we place in the hands
of one class of citizens the right to make, interpret and execute
the law for another class wholly unrepresented in the government,
we have made an order of nobility.

ARTICLE 4, SEC. 2.--The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in
the several States.

The elective franchise is one of the privileges secured by this
section approved in Dunham _vs._ Lamphere (3 Gray Mass. Rep.,
276), and Bennett _vs._ Boggs (Baldwin's Rep., p. 72, Circuit
Court U. S.).

ARTICLE 4, SEC. 4.--The United States shall guarantee to
every State in the Union a republican form of government.

How can that form of government be called republican in which
one-half the people are forever deprived of all participation in
its affairs?

ARTICLE 6.--This Constitution, and the laws of the United
States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, ... shall
be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every
State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution
or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

ARTICLE 14, SEC. 1.--All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States.... No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges and
immunities of citizens of the United States.

In the discussion of the enfranchisement of woman, suffrage is
now claimed by one class of thinkers as a privilege based upon
citizenship and secured by the Constitution of the United States,
as by lexicographers as well as by the constitution itself, the
definition of citizen includes women as well as men. No State can
rightfully deprive a woman-citizen of the United States of any
fundamental right which is hers in common with all other
citizens. The States have the right to regulate, but not to
prohibit the elective franchise to citizens of the United States.
Thus the States may d