Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency
This paper analyzes the history of women’s voting rights in New Jersey during the American Revolutionary period. New Jersey was the first American State to establish women’s voting rights explicitly in the 1790s. One notes, through this experiment, both a certain transparency and opacity concerning...
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| में प्रकाशित: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718, |
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| स्वरूप: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| भाषा: | Anglais |
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XVII-XVIII
2016
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| सारांश: | This paper analyzes the history of women’s voting rights in New Jersey during the American Revolutionary period. New Jersey was the first American State to establish women’s voting rights explicitly in the 1790s. One notes, through this experiment, both a certain transparency and opacity concerning the political rights of some American citizens, and the changing political interests of New Jersey legislators. To explain New Jersey’s specificities, historians put forward both the development of a party system which led to a strong electoral competition between Federalists and Republicans, and the influence of progressive ideas regarding women’s political participation. These ideas come from a variety of sources: the Enlightenment’s natural rights, American revolutionary ideas, and the Quakers, who were generally in favor of women’s politico-religious participation. |
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