He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.
Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.
A sum of £15,000 was paid at the 1801 Union, to Gustavus Lambart, Esq., as Compensation for the loss of the elective franchise.
Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed despite Mott's opposition.
It was the site of the first Women's Rights Convention and where Elizabeth Cady Stanton demanded the right to free elective franchise.
Thinking it might possibly be in the enjoyment of the elective franchise, he gave it a cordial and earnest grasp.
The elective franchise was vested in the freemen at large, amounting, in the year 1832, to 94 in number; but by the act of the 2nd of Wm. IV., cap.
Near the end of the war, Canada, Russia, Germany, and Poland also recognized women's right to participate in the elective franchise.
On the vexing question of giving the Negro the vote, Lincoln conceded, "It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man.
He was school commissioner from 1843 until 1851, a member of the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846, and served on the committee on suffrage and elective franchise.