Notes.

In "Woman's Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment," by Henry St. Georga Tucker does not argue for or against the extension of the elective franchise to woman. His aim is to show that an amendment to the Federal Constitution granting them the right of suffrage "is opposed to the genius of the instrument itself and subversive of one of the most important principles incorporated in it." The author's prime contention, however, is not that the proposed amendment would be rendered ineffective by turbulent opposition in the dissenting States, but that its adoption would form an unfortunate precedent. If control of suffrage is to pass from the States to the nation, there is no reason why a similar transfer should not be made of the power to regulate the marriage relation, the devolution of property, the sale of liquors, the rules relating to negotiable instruments and to contracts of every kind.