In the Senate of the United States, on February 1, 1879, Senator F. Hoar, from the committee on privileges and elections submitted views upon universal and women's suffrage. This report concludes a response to the extension on woman suffrage that was recommended to be indefinitely postponed by Mr. Wadleigh, from the committee on privileges and elections, June 1878, on account of many reasons. The justification for equality in universal and woman suffrage provides insight into the measure of rejection from political representatives and leaders. As a result of the Civil War, the women's rights movement had been dimmed, however, with the end of the war and the start of reconstruction women started again to advocate their rights and woman's suffrage.…show more content… Also, that suffrage will work mischief in practice, is simply a claim that justice will work mischief in practice. Throughout my source, it is highly expressed that political institutions were upon the concept that all men have an equal right to share in the government. This theory is communicated in many forms, including the Declaration of Independence, The Virginia Bill of Rights, and the Massachusetts Bill of Rights. Hoar states that if these doctrines are true, it follows that no class or persons can rightfully be excluded from their equal share in the government unless they can be proved to lack some quality essential to the proper exercise of political power. On that account, Hoar says women are essential not only to politics but the voice of communities as more than ninety percent of the teachers are women. To exaggerate, failure has occurred in many operations where women have not been permitted to contribute to them with their full share. As to this, the best examples of the perfect family, perfect school, perfect church, love, purity, and the truth of woman are essential, so they are equally essential to the perfect example of the self-governing state. Hoar also supports that to say a capacity to judge of character so sure and rapid as to be termed intuitive is a special attribute derived by women. Therefore, the admission to the polls of…show more content… Wadleigh's report to the Senate on behalf of the committee's response to the extension of women's suffrage, he lists eleven reasons why the extension is recommended to be postponed. Mr. Hoar then lists those concerns in his report and responds to each with resolutions and a more positive insight. In some of Mr. Wadleigh's concerns, he mainly expresses the dependency on the other sex, the large increase in the number of voting population, the attendance of inexperienced voters in public affairs, the incapability of military duties, and the burden of governing that is allowed if women were given the right to vote. Hoar responds to the many concerns with contradicting insights supporting women, starting with the idea that it is impossible to measure the dependency as to declare that man is most dependent on woman or woman upon man. It is also by no means true that dependency on either or the other affects the right to suffrage. Also, increasing the number of constituencies diminishes the opportunity for corruption. He then continues by supporting that with the inclusion of women, size is itself a conservative force in a republic, and that the larger the field of operation, the more likely such influences are to neutralize each other. He comments that the objection of inexperience in public affairs applies to every voter when he first votes and if valid would prevent and exclude any extension of suffrage for men of certain ages. Now, the capacity for military duties for
