<Li> He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead . </Li> <Li> He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns . </Li> <Li> He has made her morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband . In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master--the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement . </Li> <Li> He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce, in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given; as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of the women--the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of a man, and giving all power into his hands . </Li>

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