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" The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. "
Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations - Page 19
edited by - 1993 - 620 pages
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History of Woman Suffrage: 1861-1876

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 1881 - 1018 pages
...States, and that form the duties and trusts that belong to the office of an attorney and counselor. It is true that many women are unmarried and not affected...and mother. This is the law of the Creator. And the rulesof civil society must be adapted to the general constitution of things, and can not be based upon...
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United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 21

United States. Supreme Court - 1911 - 972 pages
...rule. The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of-wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. And the...rules of civil society 'must be adapted to the general consti- [*142 tution of things, and cannot be based upon exceptional cases. The humane movements of...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 1276 pages
...years that a woman had no legal existence separate from her husband. Justice Bradley concluded that "the paramount destiny and mission of woman are to...noble and benign offices of wife and mother." This, he said, is "the law of the Creator." 977 ated. It should he noted here, however, that in a theocracy,...
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Equal Rights for Men and Women 1971: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - 1971 - 750 pages
...years that a woman had no legal existence separate from her husband. Justice Bradley concluded that "the paramount destiny and mission of woman are to...noble and benign offices of wife and mother." This, he said, is "the law of the Creator." 577 ated. It should be noted here, however, that in a theocracy,...
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Women & Housing: A Report on Sex Discrimination in Five American Cities

National Council of Negro Women - 1976 - 224 pages
...repugnant to the ideas of a woman adopting a distinct and independent career from that of her husband . . . The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to...of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator. [8] With industry came a realignment of economic forces with respect to labor. High percentages of...
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The coming decade: American women and human resources policies and programs ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources - 1979 - 1696 pages
...unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life ... the paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother." Georgia's 1974 declaration that "the husband is the head of the family and the wife Is subject to him"...
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Women's Rights in the United States of America: A Report

United States. Women's Rights Task Force - 1979 - 30 pages
...Court and citing the "law of the Creator," claimed that "The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother." (Bradwell v. Illinois 83 US 130 (1873)). In 1964, Congress passed a Civil Rights Act, Title VII of...
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Nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor: Hearings Before the Committee on the ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - 424 pages
...in 1873. In refusing her •it, the Supreme Court said: "The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. "The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for...
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Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s

Robert Bocking Stevens - 2001 - 352 pages
...unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. . . . The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife...rules of civil society must be adapted to the general contribution of things, and cannot be based on exceptional cases."73 In 1878, Belva Lockwood, however,...
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Pay Equity: Equal Pay for Work of Comparable Value : Joint Hearings ..., Part 2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Human Resources - 1983 - 896 pages
...Washington, DC, 1953, P-. 9. be based on exceptional cases. The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This Is the lav of the Creator.' This passage Illustrates two assumptions concerning women which were prevalent...
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