I am inflamed rather than persuaded by prudential arguments such as the following: … Women today constitute a majority of ... the ... American polit[y]. They are today governed under a federal Constitution largely the making of men who died long ago, men who may not have had their interests foremost in mind.... … This is not popular self rule; it is rule from cold graves of dead men ... and by small clumps of old men in ordinary government.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 279