The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government : Gray Rabbit Publishing : 9781515423362 : 1515423360 : 13 Aug 2018 : In post-Civil War America, the newly freed slaves had the right to vote, but women--regardless of their race--did not. In this era, Victoria Claflin Woodhull came of age politically, and was one of the leading lights in the fight for true equal rights. The first woman to testify before Congress, the first to be nominated for President (in 1872, by the Equal Rights Party), and one of the first to own her own brokerage house on Wall Street, she had very definite ideas about how to improve the lives of Americans in general and women in particular. This volume, originally published in 1871, was a collection of her writings related to the concept of government, what it was and ought to be. Those writings, which appeared frequently in newspapers of the time, as well as the entirety of the book, served as Woodhull's campaign platform, and garnered some interesting editori