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. It is said that the duties of maternity disqualify for the performance of the act of voting. It can not be, and I think is not claimed by any one, that the mother who otherwise would be fit to vote is rendered mentally or morally less fit to exercise this high function in the [...]
The small farmers and slaveholders acted as a restraint upon any tendency toward oligarchy which the gentry might have entertained. The small farmers were in the majority and they had the right to vote. The percentage of white males who voted in the 18th Century elections was quite high. True, the colonial voters elected only [...]
The Americans boast of the bigness of their country. How to “bound” the United States. “Manifest Destiny” of the “Anglo-Saxon Race.” The term “Anglo-Saxon” slovenly and misleading. Statements relating to the “English Race” have a common interest for Americans and for Englishmen. Work of the English race in the world. The prime feature of civilization [...]