July 20

I feel certain that everyone has, at one point or another, received the admonition to ‘read the fine print’ of just about everything, from a home mortgage to a bottle of aspirin. You will note the importance of that little task when you consider that on the 20th in 1921 the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued an opinion in which he stated that while the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution granted the right to vote to women, the Commonwealth’s constitution did not give them the right to seek or hold elective office. This comes under the heading of Huh?