Just out of interest, I discovered from Stevie Davies's Unbridled Spirits that individual women had, once, been able to vote in elections if they were property holders in their own right (like widows). This loophole was closed in 1644 by the jurist Sir Edward Coke, whose Institutes disqualified "all males being minors, all that have no freehold and all women having freehold or no freehold". Not many women had qualified before, but this erased all those who did. Thanks, Ed.....
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Date: 2004-12-15 07:26 am (UTC)