LAWS 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Therapeutic Abortion Committee, Henrietta Edwards, Henry Morgentaler
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Wife can"t sue or be sued in her own name. Legislation prohibited married women to become lawyers. She argues that her 14th amendment rights were breached. No state should make a law that abridges the rights and privileges of any citizen. So she needed to prove that becoming part of the bar was a. Ratio right: bradwell, being a married woman, never had a right or privilege to become an attorney in illinois so there was no right to abridge- so said the creator. Man is woman"s protector and defender, while women are the keepers of the domestic sphere. Henrietta edwards v. canada 1930 jcpc (judicial committee of privy counsel) Facts: edwards applied to become a member of the senate of canada. Issues: was edwards a qualified person as defined in the british north america act, Sometimes the constitution referred specifically to male and female, female.
