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What eight million women want

CHAPTER III
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No English woman ever attended a coronation as king's champion.

The rights and duties of these offices were delegated to a male relative.

Every once in a while, during the Middle Ages, some strong-minded lady of title demanded the right to administer her office in person, but she was always sternly put down by a rebuking House of Lords, sometimes even by the king's majesty himself.
In the same way the voting powers of the women of England are a result of hereditary privilege.

Local affairs in England, until a very recent period, were administered through the parish, and the only persons qualified to vote were the property owners of the parish.

It was really property interests and not people who voted.


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