The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: A review of the rise and fall of nations from early historic time to the present; with special considerations regarding the future of the United States as the representative government of the world and the form of administration which will secure this consummation. Also, papers on human equality, as represented by labor and its representative, money; and the meaning and significance of life from a scientific standpoint, with its prophecies forWoodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin)
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The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: A review of the rise and fall of nations from early historic time to the present; with special considerations regarding the future of the United States as the representative government of the world and the form of administration which will secure this consummation. Also, papers on human equality, as represented by labor and its representative, money; and the meaning and significance of life from a scientific standpoint, with its prophecies for
Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin)
Social sciences; United States -- Politics and government
It was under the realization of what our destiny should be that the
Pronunciamento of April 2, 1870, in the New York _Herald_, was made; and
now, having offered this general review, my Second Pronunciamento, which
is supplementary to and the completing of the first, is laid before the
people. It is believed that the policy and principles underlying it,
proclaimed therein, will be the final departure necessary to be made, as
the point from which progress will be continued, until the grand
realization of the prophecies of all ages is fulfilled, when all
nations, kindred and tongues shall be united in one harmonious family,
they having risen into the full knowledge of the truth, that whether we
be Christian or Pagan, Greek or Roman, Atheist or Spiritualist, we are
all the children of one common Father, God, whom we shall ever worship
as the Creator, Ruler and Final Destiny of the Universe.
SECOND PRONUNCIAMENTO.
CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY THE LOGICAL RESULT OF THE XIV. AND XV.
AMENDMENTS, WHICH NOT ONLY DECLARE WHO ARE CITIZENS, BUT ALSO DEFINE
THEIR RIGHTS, ONE OF WHICH IS THE RIGHT TO VOTE, WITHOUT REGARD TO SEX,
BOTH SEXES BEING INCLUDED IN THE MORE COMPREHENSIVE PROHIBITORY TERMS OF
RACE AND COLOR.
THE STATE LAWS WHICH PROSCRIBED WOMEN AS VOTERS WERE REPEALED BY THE
STATES WHEN THEY RATIFIED SAID AMENDMENTS—THERE ARE NO EXISTING
OPERATIVE LAWS WHICH PROSCRIBE THE RIGHT OF ANY CITIZEN TO VOTE—THE
PERFECTED FRUITS OF THE LATE WAR—THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS
BOUND TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS, MALE AND FEMALE, IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR
RIGHT TO VOTE—THE DUTY OF CONGRESS IN THE PREMISES.
The time has now arrived when it becomes proper to present the final and
unanswerable proposition, which cannot by any possibility be
controverted, that the several States which, until recently, assumed and
exercised the right of defining which of its citizens should exercise
the right to vote, have by their own voluntary act not only forever
repealed all such prohibitory laws, but also have forever barred their
re-enactment.
Of this I have been fully aware since the proclamation by the President
that the XV. Amendment had become a part of the Organic Law of the
country.
To bring the whole matter properly before the public I published an
address on the 2d of April last, in which I announced myself a candidate
for the Presidency in 1872, and thus asserted the right of woman to
occupy the highest office in the gift of the people.
After that address had had its legitimate effect in arousing the press
of the country to the realization that women are a constituent part of
the body politic, and to a discussion in a much more general way than
had ever been before, I published my second address to the people,
announcing that the XVI. Amendment was a dead letter, and that the
Constitution fully recognized the equality of all citizens.
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