All 3 Uses of
posterity
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On Women's Right to Vote
- The preamble of the Federal Constitution says: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."†
- And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people — women as well as men.†
- By it the blessings of liberty are forever withheld from women and their female posterity.†
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Definitions:
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(posterity) all future generations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, posterity can refer to the future generations descended from an individual.