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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openedition-oai:revues.org:1718_621 https://doi.org/10.4000/1718.621 urn:doi:10.4000/1718.621 en https://journals.openedition.org/1718/621 2016-12-04T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/8fk6 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency XVII-XVIII Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/1718 Garbaye, Linda 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. Cet article porte sur le droit de vote des femmes dans le New Jersey pendant la période révolutionnaire américaine. Le New Jersey fut le 1er Etat de l’Union à accorder, explicitement, le droit de vote des femmes dans les années 1790. Cette expérience permet de mettre en lumière, tour à tour, une certaine transparence et un manque de transparence concernant les droits politiques de certains citoyens américains et les intérêts politiques, variables, des législateurs du New Jersey. Les historiens mettent en effet en avant le développement des partis politiques qui a entraîné dès la fin du 18e siècle une compétition électorale serrée entre les Fédéralistes et les Républicains, et l’influence des idées progressistes – les droits naturels des Lumières, les idées révolutionnaires américaines, et le principe d’égalité hommes-femmes des Quakers en matière de participation politico-religieuse. |
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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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Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency |
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Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency |
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Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency |
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Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency |
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Women’s Voting Rights in 18th-Century New Jersey Electoral Reforms: Opacity and Transparency |
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women’s voting rights in 18th-century new jersey electoral reforms: opacity and transparency |
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