Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . d women therights of property. He said: The liberal and enlightened spiritof the age has developed and secured the rights of man, and hasredeemed wnman and elevated her from the degrading positionshe occu])ie(l. and placed her where she always should have been,at the siile of her husband, his equal in rank and dignity. Thenwhy should her rights uf property still be to a great extent con-trolled bv the contracted enactments of an age when her husbandwas her lord, and he might chastise her by law, as if she were as
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . d women therights of property. He said: The liberal and enlightened spiritof the age has developed and secured the rights of man, and hasredeemed wnman and elevated her from the degrading positionshe occu])ie(l. and placed her where she always should have been,at the siile of her husband, his equal in rank and dignity. Thenwhy should her rights uf property still be to a great extent con-trolled bv the contracted enactments of an age when her husbandwas her lord, and he might chastise her by law, as if she were aservant. Following the Governors advice, the legislature, in1848, enacted the first law extending to women the rights ofproperty. Strangelv enough, however, these rights were frit- Message 1848. p, 9. Shunks and Johnstons Administrations tered away by several decisions of the SuiM-eiiie Court, wliichgreatly destroyed the efficiency of the original enactment. Goyernor Shunk also favored a ciiange in the law relating tothe separation of married persons. Inini the beginning of the.
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