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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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Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights

open access: yesKyklos, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 273-284, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Constitutional political economy theory implies that systems of rights can emerge from different processes, but the rights that initially emerge tend to be unequal and to change through time. In some cases, rights may become more equal and universal, but not often. If rights are consequential, then understanding their origins and the political,
Roger D. Congleton
wiley   +1 more source

\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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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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Dr. Patrick T. Conley on the Law and Order Constitution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this interview, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, constitutional historian and Dorr scholar, discusses the deficiencies of the Law & Order Constitution of 1843, the provisions of the People\u27s Constitution of 1841, and his personal involvement in the Rhode ...
Conley, Patrick T.
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Men, women, and the ballot: Gender imbalances and suffrage extensions in US states [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it under the imminent threat of female unrest.
Braun, Sebastian, Kvasnicka, Michael
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Suffrage

open access: yes, 1983
Published as Kousser, J. Morgan (1984) Suffrage. In: Encyclopedia of American Political History. Vol.3. Scribner, New York, pp. 1236-1258.
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