Her view of the suffrage question was that the Constitution had already given the vote to women and that the legislation sought by organized suffragists was therefore pointless.
Hayes's opponent, Allen G. Thurman, made the proposed amendment the centerpiece of the campaign, and both men campaigned vigorously, making speeches across the state, mostly focusing on the suffrage question.
In a Times piece he wrote in 1943, Gallup challenged this assumption directly: In a government based on suffrage the question is not whether the opinion of any one person is intelligent, but whether the collective judgment of all the people is intelligent.
There is scarcely any point in female suffrage (the burning question of the day) where it is so little wanted.
The question of suffrage was raised, obviously, during the revolution, and again in 1848, and again in 1870 — whenever France got rid of a king or an emperor, French men would dust off their "neutral" concept of liberty, equality, and fraternity in a one-and-indivisible republic, and then decide, with inscrutable illogic, that the indivisible was male.
The question of suffrage was raised, obviously, during the revolution, and again in 1848, and again in 1870 whenever France got rid of a king or an emperor, French men would dust off their "neutral" concept of liberty, equality, and fraternity in a one-and-indivisible republic, and then decide, with inscrutable illogic, that the indivisible was male.
The party, he says, now believes that eruptions of local discontent are best solved by a combination of force paying off demonstrators.But some scholars see room for improvement at the local level, even without yet tackling the question of universal suffrage.
On the campaign trail in Metz in Moselle, north-eastern France, the culture minister, Aurelie Filippetti, one of the key young female faces in the cabinet, running a tough race, told reporters: "I'm prepared to take the risk of losing my government post in standing for universal suffrage, because there's no question of me abandoning La Moselle".
At a 1914 rally he stated "Taxation without representation is tyranny ... [The] purpose of this meeting ... is to shock the people of Memphis into a realization that the question of equal suffrage is not child's play".
Such a result makes sense of Rousseau's famous passage: "Each citizen, in giving his suffrage, states his mind on that question [concerning what the general will is]; and the general will is found by counting the votes.
Jane developed an interest in the question of women's suffrage after attending a conference in London, in 1871.
