- Event type: CREATE_FROM
Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
Committee on Elections and Right of Suffrage
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Utah County Suffrage Petition [File No. 61a]
To the Honorable the President and Members of the constitutional convention:
Gentlemen:-
The undersigned delegates to the Woman's Suffrage Association of Utah County, appointed to represent said association in presenting this memorial to your honorable body, respectfully represent that the women of said association, in common with their sisters throughout the Territory of Utah, are at present deprived of the privileges of American citizenship, notwithstanding the great majority of them are native born citizens of the United States. We further represent that notwithstanding that we are taxed and are amenable to the laws equally with men, still we have no voice or vote upon the justice or propriety of such taxation or expediency of the laws to which we are equally amenable with men.
We recognize with feelings of gratitude that both the great political parties in Utah have declared in favor of equal suffrage. We have no doubt that you will keep the pledge and confer upon the women of Utah that political freedom and equality which justly and logically belongs to them as citizens of the most enlightened, just, and progressive nation on the earth.
Because it is just and because you have solemnly pledged yourselves to accomplish the result, we respectfully request that you insert a clause in the Constitution of the State of Utah, conferring upon women the right of suffrage, and your memorialists will ever pray, etc.
(Signed)
MRS. ELECTA BULLOCK,
MRS. SARAH A. BOYER,
MRS. HANNAH S. LAPISH,
Delegates.
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- Utah County Suffrage Petition [File No. 61a] (introduced on 1895-03-16 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697295) [This document]
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- Utah County Suffrage Petition [File No. 61a] (introduced on 1895-03-16 10:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e697295) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]