“Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York, [July, 19-20, 1848]. Resolution IX.

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