Matching (10 pts). For each of the following quotations and/or statements, match the name of the author most closely associated with the statement. Enter the correct letters – A, B, C, and so on – in the spaces provided. Each author’s name may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
A. Alexander Hamilton B. Alexis de Tocqueville C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Lucretia Mott
D. Carol Mosely Braun E. James Madison F. Chancellor Kent G. Chief Justice Morrison Waite
- An opponent of universal voting rights, _________believed that elections for some state offices should be limited to citizens who own property. To do otherwise, he said, would be a “bold and hazardous experiment.”
- _“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.”
- _ It is clear therefore, we think, that the Constitution has not added the right of suffrage to the privileges and immunities of citizenship as they existed at the time it was adopted.”
- A keen observer of both the American and French Revolutions, _________attributes the “singular prosperity” and “growing strength” of Americans to “the superiority of their women.”
- _________Agreeing, at least in part, with Chancellor Kent’s reluctance to grant voting rights to all citizens, this political thinker said in the 1830s, ”I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of he populace.”