Women's Suffrage and the Constitution: Preface

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment

COMPILED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT

No effort is made in the following pages to present an argument for woman suffrage for no American possessed of political foresight doubts woman suffrage in our land as a coming fact.

The discussion herein is strictly confined to the reasons why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question.

Contents: Why the Federal Amendment?-State Constitutional Obstructions-Election Laws and Referenda-Story of the 1916 Referenda-Federal Action and States Rights-Objections to the Federal Amendment.

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NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING CO. 171 Madison Avenue - New York

NATIONAL SUFFRAGE LIBRARY WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT COMPILED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT PUBLISHED BY National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc. 171 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK 1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917 NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY INC.

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