Votes for Women: “Let the People Rule”
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- Who Counts? A Look at Voter Rights through Political Cartoons
In 1912, as the candidate of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed, "Let the people rule!" While Roosevelt supported voting rights for women, there remained the question of whether women would be accepted as full participants in American political life—if they truly were "people."