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Translator: Alice Drysdale Vickery

THE FIRST ESSAY ON The Political Rights of Women.

BY DR. ALICE DRYSDALE VICKERY.

LETCHWORTH: GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITED.

PREFACE

The essential principles of our claim have been reiterated again and again. We form one-half of the human race, and need recognition by the law as much as the other half of the race. But, as long as our law-makers are not directly responsible to us for their conduct in Parliament, they may, and do, safely neglect our interests, and pass laws which jeopardise our liberties and subordinate our just rights of person, property, and offspring to the supposed interests of the men whom they represent.

The Parliamentary Franchise was conferred on the women of New Zealand in 1893, the same year in which the above was printed. In 1907 the Hon. R. Oliver, late member of the Legislative Council, writes: "The interest now taken by women in New Zealand in the politics of the country is remarkable, and is regarded as a decided gain to the community."

And all this despite the admitted fact that the social and economic problems, which are coming more and more into the field of parliamentary labours, are all but incapable of solution without the help of enfranchised women.

ALICE VICKERY.

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship.

BY THE MARQUIS DE CONDORCET.

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