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TRYING TO FIT AN OVAL SHAPED ISLAND INTO A SQUARE CONSTITUTION: ARGUMENTS FOR PUERTO RICAN STATEHOOD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This Comment focuses on the limits placed on Puerto Rico under the United States Constitution and concludes that Puerto Rico must become the 51st state to improve its status under the Constitution.
Roman, Jose D.
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Lavinia Dock: Adams County Suffragette

open access: yes, 1997
In the aftermath of the anniversary celebrations held to commemorate women\u27s right to vote, it is fitting to remember an Adams county resident who figured prominently in the most militant phase of the suffrage campaign-Lavinia Lloyd Dock. Lavinia Dock
Schwartz, Mary Lou
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The Road Not Taken: John Brown Francis and the Dorr Rebellion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this contextualizing essay, Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone examine historical opposing views to Providence attorney Thomas Wilson Dorr and his attempt to reform the state\u27s archaic governing structure in the spring of 1842.
Chaput, Erik J., DeSimone, Russell J.
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Women as Producers of Global Historical Knowledge

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
In 1907 the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire became the first state in the world to elect women to its national parliament. This paper explores an overlooked part of the process that led to Finnish women attaining full suffrage, which is ...
Juho Korhonen
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Introduction: Suffrage Outside Suffragism

open access: yes, 2007
This collection of essays systematically explores how a sample of political groupings not founded on suffrage reacted and accommodated the issue of suffrage within their official discourses and structures. The volume leads to the heart and core of suffragism while examining the dynamics and versatilities of the Edwardian political fabric.
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Shaping a Collective Identity through Self-Representation: Early Suffrage Autobiographies and the Militant Experience

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This essay aims to demonstrate the interdependent relationship between self-representation and collective identity in the militant suffrage campaign by focusing on two early suffragette autobiographies, Emmeline Pankhurst’s My Own Story and Constance ...
Chloé Clément
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\u27Choose Life!\u27 Quaker Metaphor and Modernity

open access: yes, 2015
In 2003, Grace Jantzen presented the George Richardson Lecture, the annual international lecture in Quaker studies, entitled \u27Choose Life! Early Quaker Women and Violence in Modernity\u27, which was published in Quaker Studies.
Dandelion, Pink   +3 more
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