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Victoria C. Woodhull: The subject of a monarch takes municipal immunities from the sovereign as a gracious favor; but the woman citizen of…

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The subject of a monarch takes municipal immunities from the sovereign as a gracious favor; but the woman citizen of this country has the inalienable “sovereign” right of self-government in her own proper person.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull argues that women possess an inalienable right to self-governance, unlike subjects in a monarchy.

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