Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887 by Various presents a vivid, unvarnished record of the Senate floor clash over a proposed constitutional amendment to extend the ballot to women. This politics-focused audiobook preserves the verbatim proceedings from the December 1886 and January 1887 sessions, including speeches by Senators H.W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, and George F. Hoar. Listeners will hear the reading of the joint resolution language—that citizens’ voting rights “shall not be denied or abridged… on account of sex” and that Congress shall have power to enforce the article—and the legal, moral, and tactical arguments marshaled for and against it. The recording situates the debate within the late 19th-century suffrage movement, illuminating contemporary attitudes toward constitutional amendment, federalism, and gendered citizenship without editorializing. Ideal for historians, political scientists, students, and anyone fascinated by the long legislative road to women’s enfranchisement, this primary-source audiobook offers direct access to the rhetorical and procedural dynamics that shaped an era-defining debate. Listen to experience history as it was argued on the Senate floor.