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To: A. Pole
Are you saying that the main purpose of suffrage movement was to gain recognition of women's pre-existing Constitutional right to vote rather than to actually create a new right for them?

If so, that's a very novel view of history.
191 posted on 09/26/2003 5:06:49 PM PDT by jas3
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To: jas3
Are you saying that the main purpose of suffrage movement was to gain recognition of women's pre-existing Constitutional right to vote rather than to actually create a new right for them?

So what is your explanation?

192 posted on 09/26/2003 5:23:04 PM PDT by A. Pole ("Is 87 billion dollars a great deal of money? Yes. Can our country afford it?" [Secretary Rumsfeld])
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