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VIII SUFFRAGE
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays · Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in law or constitution. It is altogether a subtlety and illusion, wholly unfounded and absurd. We must not be cheated by any such phantom or any other trick of law and politics."--JAMES OTIS, quoted by Charles Sumner in speech, March 7, 1866.