Milford News | 1932-03-03 | Page 7 | Woman Suffrage in 1797

Woman Suffrag in 1797 Why has It never been imagined that the right of election should be extended to women? Why! but because be-cause by the law of nations and perhaps per-haps also by the law of nature, that sex is dependent on ours ; and because, therefore, their voice would be governed gov-erned by the relation in which they stand in society. Therefore It Is, sir, that with the exception of companies in which right of voting merely affects af-fects property, It has never been In the contemplation of the most absurd theorists to extend the elective franchise fran-chise to the other sex. Charles James Fox in Speech on Parliamentary Reform, Re-form, 179T.