[Perseverando]

Time for another great American history lesson from American Minute.

[bankwalker]

repeal the 19th ASAP ...

[NorthMountain]

In colonial America, first landowners could vote, then those owning a certain amount of personal property.

And it has been a downhill slide into kakistocracy ever since.

[familyop]

If the Democrats push their hostility and desire for violence far enough to give sane Americans no other choice, then make sure that one of the outcomes of the disturbance will be one family, one vote.


How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:

This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.