The reasons assigned for the exclusion of women may be very unsatisfactory; but they show at least that the Fathers, when insisting that taxation and representation must go together, did not regard women, any more than minors, within the sphere of this commanding principle.
Sumner critiques the exclusion of women from representation, arguing that the principle of taxation and representation should apply to them as well.
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