A CRITIQUE OF METHODS FOR ALTERATION OF WOMEN'S LEGAL STATUS

Authors

Gladys Wells, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

A case was appealed because all women electors were excluded from the jury. Held, the Nineteenth federal Amendment merely prohibits discrimination, leaving the states to confer the right of suffrage. Moreover, jury service is distinct therefrom; and the state constitution excludes women by providing for juries of twelve "men." If being an elector ipso facto entitled to jury service, the legislature could prescribe no other limitation. No question of violation of the Fourteenth Amendment can be raised since the accused does not belong to the excluded class.

Recommended Citation

Gladys Wells, A CRITIQUE OF METHODS FOR ALTERATION OF WOMEN'S LEGAL STATUS, 21 Mich. L. Rev. 721 (1923).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol21/iss7/2