Women Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment First Edition Signed

1916. Tucker, Henry St. George. Women Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment. First Edition Signed and Inscribed. New Haven: Yale, 1916. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 204. Inscribed by the author, a very nice copy. Kruchmar 2068. (40111) These lectures were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series before the Law School at Yale University. Tucker [1853-1932] was a Congressman from Virginia. He argues that a Constitutional amendment providing for women's suffrage would violate the division between state and federal powers. According to Tucker, the right to vote is not a federal issue, but a local one.