1. Because those who obey the rules should have the right to vote for those who make the rules.
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2. Because laws affect women just as much as they affect men. .
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3. Laws which affect women are now passed without consulting them. .
4. Laws that effect children should include women's point of view as well as the mans. .
5. Laws affecting the home are voted on in every session of the Legislature. .
6. Women have experience which would be helpful to legislation. .
7. To deprive women of the vote is to lower their position in common estimation. .
8. Having the vote would increase the sense of responsibility among women toward questions of public importance.
9. Because public-spirited mothers would have public-spirited sons. .
10. About eight million women in the United States are wage workers and the conditions under which they work are under control of the law. .
11. The objections against their having the right to vote are based on prejudice, not on reason. .
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12. To sum up all reasons in one- It's for the common good of all (Spruill, 193).
On January 11, 1871, Victoria C. Woodhull, a woman's activist included in her address to the Judiciary Committees of the House of Representatives. Women stated a majority of the people in this country hold vast portions of the nation's wealth and pay a proportionate share of the taxes. They are entrusted with the most vital responsibilities of society; they bear, rear, and educate men. They train and mold their characters; they inspire the noblest impulses in men; they often hole the accumulated fortunes of a mans life for the safety of the family and as guardians of the infants. Yet, they are debarred from uttering any opinion by the public vote, as to the management by public servants of these interests. Women are the secret counselors, the best advisors, the most devoted aids in the most trying periods of a man's life, and yet men shrink away from trusting them in the common questions of ordinary politics.