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.
Woodhull argues that women possess an inalienable right to self-governance, unlike subjects in a monarchy.
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If they still live as spirits, if they have had better opportunities of obtaining wisdom and knowledge pertaining to earth-life than we—can this world avail itself of their assistance to establish on earth the government of heaven?
Prisons would be converted into asylums and workshops for the weak and unfortunate, and their keepers into superintendents and teachers.
Are they not better qualified to direct legislation now than the wisest among us?
Are not their minds expanded to the comprehension of the great principles of governmental justice?