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Bredbenner, Candice Lewis. A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1998 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0g500376/.

Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2000. https://archive.org/details/publicvows00nanc.

Keber, Linda K. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies. Hill and Wang. 1998.

Kerber, Linda K. “The Paradox of Women’s Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Case of Martin vs. Massachusetts, 1805”. The American Historical Review Vol. 97, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 349-378 (30 pages). Oxford University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2165723#metadata_info_tab_contents.

Martin v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1 Mass. 260, 1 Will. 260 (1805). Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. https://cite.case.law/mass/1/260/.

While editing I would like to bring in more information on what the status of coverture meant for women and why this case held so much sway over women’s lives and development as a political block. I may want to reorganize the article as well, as some of the existing sections feel very incomplete and lacking in clarity.