The Loughridge/Butler Report

I've written several posts over the years about the dissent  to the House Judiciary Committee's 1871 Report rejecting the argument that the 14th Amendment gave women the right to vote. This dissent, written by Representative William Loughridge of Iowa, is one of the most remarkable constitutional arguments ever made. It's basically the Harlan Plessy dissent for gender equality.

Now I've finally figured out how to write a paper on this dissent, which I will start writing as soon as I finish cleaning up the Steel Seizure concurrence book manuscript. More on that soon.