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Different Views on Woman Suffrage
These two petitions demonstrate how citizens tried to influence policy through written declarations about issues that mattered to them. The 1884 pro-suffrage petition from Jefferson Township, Ohio, distinguished "voters" from "women." The 1917 petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York urged the Senate "to pass no measure involving such a radical change [suffrage] in the government" while the nation was at war. |