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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... passed pursuant thereto , male citizens alone can vote in the election of Secretary of State , Treasurer , Auditor , Attor- ney - General , Sheriffs , Registers of Probate , Commissioners of Insolvency , Clerks of Courts , and District ...
... passed pursuant thereto , male citizens alone can vote in the election of Secretary of State , Treasurer , Auditor , Attor- ney - General , Sheriffs , Registers of Probate , Commissioners of Insolvency , Clerks of Courts , and District ...
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... passed the Fugitive Slave Bill . In 1790 , there were 697,681 slaves in the United States ( Census 1870 , p . 7 ) , who counted as 418,608 free persons ; and allowing one Representative for each thirty thousand free persons ( Const ...
... passed the Fugitive Slave Bill . In 1790 , there were 697,681 slaves in the United States ( Census 1870 , p . 7 ) , who counted as 418,608 free persons ; and allowing one Representative for each thirty thousand free persons ( Const ...
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... passing the law ? The idea is absurd . It is actually , as well as legally , true that the slaves had no rights which ... passed the Stamp Act , but failed to provide for any such representation . When he was driven from office , the new ...
... passing the law ? The idea is absurd . It is actually , as well as legally , true that the slaves had no rights which ... passed the Stamp Act , but failed to provide for any such representation . When he was driven from office , the new ...
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... passed , providing for the collection of a tax on tea , glass , paper , and painters ' colors , the preamble asserting that “ it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in his majesty's dominions in America for defraying the charge ...
... passed , providing for the collection of a tax on tea , glass , paper , and painters ' colors , the preamble asserting that “ it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in his majesty's dominions in America for defraying the charge ...
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... passed over in silence ; and that is the inex- pressible meanness of the thing . We men save at least two millions of dollars every year from our own burdens by this act of injustice . If , as we have seen , the women no doubt pay more ...
... passed over in silence ; and that is the inex- pressible meanness of the thing . We men save at least two millions of dollars every year from our own burdens by this act of injustice . If , as we have seen , the women no doubt pay more ...
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allowed to vote amendment amount assessed assessors Boston Brookline churches Colonies colonists Commonwealth Congress consent Const Constitution Court Declaration of Rights deprived disfranchised duty ecclesiastical purposes Edgartown election Equal in Polls exempted female citizens Harvard College Hubbardston Indians inhabitants Judges June 30 justice lature Legislature levied liable male citizens Massachusetts minister Natick number of males number of women opinion paid a poll-tax Parliament Petersham places plantations Plurality for Governor poll-tax 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 Table taxation of women taxation without representation taxed for civil taxed for ecclesiastical tion town and parish tyranny vote for Governor voters whole number Whole Tax woman 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 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 1 - Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
Page 32 - ... 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.
Page 3 - ... of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain, and establish, the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.