Nevertheless, as citizens women have the right to vote; they are part and parcel of that great element in which the sovereign power of the land had birth: and it is by usurpation only that men debar them from their right to vote.
Woodhull declares that women inherently possess the right to vote, which is denied to them through usurpation.
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