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Reaction from the extreme decentral- ization of 1846, and comparative distrust of popular elec- tions as the antidote for political evils, had become manifest. In England, government was on the point of widening the circle of parliamentary voters, and the wisdom of limiting the suffrage by educational or property tests was critically discussed. Educational or economic requirements had been adopted in several States of the Union. John Stuart Mill, in his "Representative Government" and his "Subj...ection of Women," had cogently presented the claims of women to vote. The first women's rights convention in this State was held at Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848, and the first national convention to urge the claims of the sex to the suffrage as- sembled at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 23, 1850. Concurrently the subject had been treated with ability in the Westminster Review, and agitation in its favor was earnestly maintained down to 1870. Minority or propor- STATE OF NEW YORK ' 207 tional representation, one of whose first and most forcible exponents was Thomas Hare, was quite naturally cast into the crucible of debate.
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