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  1. Overview: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  2. Full Record: Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)
  3. Committee:The Convention
  4. Session: 1895-03-18 14:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Utah State Constitutional Convention 1895 (2020 Edition)

Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah

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Session 7355: 1895-03-18 14:00:00

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Memorial: Woman's Suffrage: Salt Lake City

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The undersigned delegates of the Woman's Suffrage Association of Salt Lake County, appointed to represent that association in presenting the memorial to your honorable body, respectfully state, that the women of said association, together with all the women of the Territory of Utah, are at present deprived of the privileges of American citizenship and the right of suffrage, notwithstanding the majority of them are native born citizens of the United States. We further represent that though amenable to the laws and pay taxes for the support of the municipal and territorial government exactly the same as male citizens, yet we are not permitted a voice or vote in the levying or expenditure of said taxes nor in making the laws by which we are governed.

We further represent that though a few women may not be willing to exercise the right of suffrage, we believe that the majority of the women of this Territory desire and will conscientiously use this great privilege of citizenship, and that it is not just that the large number who desire it should be longer deprived of their rights as citizens, because of the few who are indifferent.

We rejoice that both of the great political parties in Utah have declared in favor of equal suffrage, and we now ask that the pledges made to the women of Utah be kept and that the new State of Utah may have a Constitution framed upon the basis of justice and privileges for all citizens.

Believing that you are actuated by sentiments of true liberty and justice and because you have solemnly pledged yourselves to the enfranchisement of the women of this Territory, 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.

Ellen B. Ferguson, Elizabeth J. MacFarlane, Mary E. Irvine, May P. Silver, Jemima R. Midgley.

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