Therefore, your memorialist would most respectfully petition your Honorable Bodies to make such laws as in the wisdom of Congress shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the right vested by the Constitution in the citizens of the United States to vote, without regard to sex.
In this petition, Woodhull calls for Congress to enact laws ensuring women's voting rights as guaranteed by the Constitution.
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