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· 4/2/1895

Shimmons v. City of Saginaw

Citations

  • 104 Mich. 511
  • 62 N.W. 725
  • 1895 Mich. LEXIS 761

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  • explaining that allowing “female citizens over eighteen years of age” to vote “authorizes females, some of whom are minors, to have a voice in the election”
  • \The representative body is entrusted with the responsibility of consulting the public interest and carrying out public policy by the enactment of laws. The power to review their fitness and wisdom does not belong to the courts.\
  • “The representative body is entrusted with the responsibility of consulting the public interest and carrying out public policy by the enactment of laws. The power to review their fitness and wisdom does not belong to the courts.”

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Judges: Montgomery, Other

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