What stopped women from voting in eighteenth-century Britain? Why could women still not vote after this obstacle was removed in the nineteenth
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1In the history of women’s political participation in the United States, the experience of New Jersey is often put forward by historians. This is largely because New Jersey is the first American state in which voting rights were explicitly granted to women, as early as 1790. Despite the scarcity of sources establishing clear and detailed evidence of New Jersey legislators’ motivations to grant voting rights to women at that period, some factors considered as potential explanations for these motivations are quite well documented. This helps us to understand better the context in which laws establishing women’s voting rights were passed. Historians usually focus on two main causes that could have led to this legislation. The first is the development of a party system, which led to political competition between groups, leading to the necessity of attracting voters, including voters from traditionally excluded populations. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period of democratic expansion in New Jersey, Federalists and Republicans acted intensely to enlarge their electorate. The second cause is the influence of progressive ideas regarding women’s political participation. These liberal ideas came from a variety of sources: the theory of natural rights (the Enlightenment), political ideas of the American Revolution, and the principle of equality of the Quakers who were a powerful force in West Jersey.
2Examination of primary and secondary sources at the New Jersey State Archives and the New Jersey State Library in Trenton, the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark, the Special Collections at Rutgers University, the historical societies of Camden, Gloucester and Bergen Counties, and the Friends Historical Society at Swarthmore College Library (Pennsylvania) did not yield new and detailed evidence describing the origins and motivations for the granting of women’s voting rights in eighteenth century New Jersey. However, they generally corroborate the historians’ current accounts on this subject, that is to say the importance of progressive ideas and of political competition, mainly between Federalists and Republicans.
3In this analysis, I seek to assess the degrees of transparency and opacity of the eighteenth century New Jersey legislation granting voting rights to women. A brief description of the history of voting rights in the United States and in other countries will first be provided. The electoral history of New Jersey, from the end of the eighteenth century to the very beginning of the nineteenth century, will then be analyzed according to the transparency-opacity dialectic.
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