Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States: An Address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888 V. 1

1 Isabella Beecher Hooker, The Constitutional Rights of the Women of the United States: An Address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888 1 (1888)

handle is hein.cow/ctrtswus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
OF THE
Women of the United States.
AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN,
WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 30, 1888.
BY ZSABfELLA BEECHER HOO8EFR.
In the month of August, I774, that eminent statesman and true
patriot, Thomas Jefferson, in a little tract entitled A Summary
View of the Rights of British America, used certain words which
I will take for my text while addressing you to-day on the Consti-
tutional Rights of the Women Citizens of the United States.
They are these:
The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
And again :
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand
of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
May I ask your patient attention while I attempt to show :
First, that under a proper interpretation of the constitution of
the United States, which he had so large a part in preparing,
women havte-a right to vote to-day, on precisely the same terms
with men ; and_secondly, that they ought, for various reasons, to
exercise this right without subjection to molestation or delay, and
men ought to help them to do so by every means in their power.
First let me speak of the constitution of the United States,
and assert that there is not a line in it, nor a word, forbidding
women to vote ; but, properly interpreted, that is, interpreted by
the Declaration of Independence, and by the assertions of the
Fathers, it actually guarantees to women the right to vote in all elec-
tions, both state and national. Listen to the preamble to the con-

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