Faced with implacable Malay opposition, the British dropped the plan for equal citizenship.
The 7-to-2 decision powerfully reaffirmed the right of equal citizenship for rich and poor alike.
"We are working for the equal citizenship of men and women," said the tired woman.
This is the most important of the political rights and is the basis of women's claims to equal citizenship with men.
March of Australian Women: a record of fifty years' struggle for equal citizenship.
Women were granted the vote and given equal citizenship for the first time in the 1950 Constitution.
It guarantees equal citizenship, and it gives Congress power to enforce equality rights.
I believe very strongly in equal citizenship, as do most of us here.
And so it was certainly a bold change from the middle of the 19th century until the 1970's when women's equal citizenship was recognized before the law.
"Surely the witness isn't asserting the equal citizenship of golden plows."