"The removal of all forms of the subjection of women is the purpose to which the National Woman's Party is dedicated. Its present campaign to remove the discriminations against women in the laws of the United States is but the beginning of its determined effort to secure the freedom of women, an integral part of the struggle for human liberty for which women are first of all responsible. Its interest lies in the final release of woman from the class of a dependent, subservient being to which early civilization committed her."The laws of various States at present hold her in that class [of dependents]. They deny her a control of her children equal to the father's; . . . they punish her for offenses for which men go unpunished; they exclude her from public office and from public institutions to the support of which her taxes contribute. . . .". . . In California the husband is sole manager of the community property,

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