Bradwell v. State
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, residing In the State of Illinois, made application to the judges of the Supreme Court of that State for a license to practice law. She accompanied her petition with the usual certificate from an inferior court of her good character, and that on du'e examination she had been found to possess the requisite qualifications.
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In error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, residing In the State of Illinois, made application to the judges of the Supreme Court of that State for a license to practice law. She accompanied her petition with the usual certificate from an inferior court of her good character, and that on du'e examination she had been found to possess the requisite qualifications. Pending this application she also filed an affidavit, to the effect “ that she was born in the State of Vermont; that she was (had been) a citizen of that State; that she is now a citizen of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Justice MILLER
delivered-the opinion of the court.
The record in this case is not very perfect, but it may be fairly taken that the plaintiff asserted her right to a license on the grounds, among others, that she was’a citizen of the United States, and that having been a citizen of Vermont at one time, she.was, in the State of Illinois, entitled to any right granted to citizens of the latter State.
The court having overruled these claims of right founded on the clauses of the Federal Constitution before referred *138to, those propositions may be considered as properly before this court.
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