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Susan B. Anthony: “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”

( 1873 ) Commentary by Michael J. O'Neal, Ph.D.
  • “Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws.” - “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”
  • “I submit the question, if the deprivation by law of the ownership of one's own person, wages, property, children, the denial of the right as an individual to sue and be sued and testify in the courts, is not a condition of servitude most bitter and absolute, even though under the sacred name of marriage?” - “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”
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