Taxation of Women in MassachusettsThis pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vote. |
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... town and parish were anciently one and the same body . The same men who bal- loted for Town Clerk , Selectmen , Constable , & c . , and who voted taxes to support highways , schools , & c . , also contracted with the minister , and ...
... town and parish were anciently one and the same body . The same men who bal- loted for Town Clerk , Selectmen , Constable , & c . , and who voted taxes to support highways , schools , & c . , also contracted with the minister , and ...
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... town " ( Stat . 1785 , c . 75 , § 7 ) ; and towns were also liable to be fined if they were not " constantly ... parish existed in a town , this union of Church and State continued , and was complete . But , when a second religious ...
... town " ( Stat . 1785 , c . 75 , § 7 ) ; and towns were also liable to be fined if they were not " constantly ... parish existed in a town , this union of Church and State continued , and was complete . But , when a second religious ...
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William Ingersoll Bowditch. voted in town meetings . But the different parishes or relig- ious societies voted their own taxes for ecclesiastical purposes , each member voting for or against his own tax in his own parish or society ...
William Ingersoll Bowditch. voted in town meetings . But the different parishes or relig- ious societies voted their own taxes for ecclesiastical purposes , each member voting for or against his own tax in his own parish or society ...
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William Ingersoll Bowditch. taxes of both kinds , whether laid by town or parish , were still required to be laid with the consent of the people taxed ; and when , in 1823 , the separation of town and parish affairs be- came the rule ...
William Ingersoll Bowditch. taxes of both kinds , whether laid by town or parish , were still required to be laid with the consent of the people taxed ; and when , in 1823 , the separation of town and parish affairs be- came the rule ...
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... city , town , or parish within its appropriate sphere , with the consent of the people who are taxed , it is constitutional ; and it is of no sort of consequence whether the tax be for civil or ecclesiastical purposes . 5-16.
... city , town , or parish within its appropriate sphere , with the consent of the people who are taxed , it is constitutional ; and it is of no sort of consequence whether the tax be for civil or ecclesiastical purposes . 5-16.
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adopted allowed to vote amendment assessed assessors Boston Brookline census of 1870 churches civil purposes Colonies colonists Commonwealth Congress consent Const Constitution Court Declaration of Rights deprived disfranchised Dracut duty ecclesiastical purposes Edgartown election eleventh amendment Equal in Polls exempted female citizens Harvard College Indians inhabitants Josiah Quincy Judges June 30 justice lature Legislature levied Lord North male citizens minister number of males number of women paid a poll-tax Parliament plantations Plurality for Governor pretext whatsoever principles protected public worship religious society Report of 1871 repre Representatives resided right of suffrage right to tax right to vote Senate standing laws Stat Statutes taxation of women taxation without representation taxed for civil taxed for ecclesiastical tion town and parish tyranny voters whole number whole tax woman women of Massachusetts women paid women tax-payers Women taxed women were taxed
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Page 3 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of indi[viduals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people cove'nants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 18 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Page 61 - ... no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people.
Page 35 - No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature.
Page 6 - And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
Page 4 - The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Page 60 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
Page 33 - ... to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants of, and persons resident, and estates lying, within the said Commonwealth; and also to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises, upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within the same...
Page 35 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 4 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.