Abstract
Between the second Reform Act and the rise of Edwardian suffragette militancy, a critique of women's political exclusion based on a re-reading of British constitutional history was developed first by constitutional lawyers and later by a small but influential network of suffragist historian-activists. These scholars came to view women's enfranchisement not as an innovation but as the restitution of lost rights. This article examines these legal-historical arguments and the alternative narrative of constitutional history that emerged out of them, situating these developments within the lineage of ancient constitutionalist discourse going back to the 'common-law mind' of the early seventeenth century.
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