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title: '"Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women''s Franchise Society, 1909)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/justice-demands-the-vote-brighton-hove-1909/
description: A robed figure of Justice with scales stands on steps beside a woman holding a banner, their way barred by a cord between two posts.
section: Collection
---

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# "Justice Demands the Vote" (Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society, 1909)

A robed figure of Justice with scales stands on steps beside a woman holding a banner, their way barred by a cord between two posts; in the foreground a woman in a shawl holds an infant beside a fashionably dressed woman. The tell: allegorical Justice lends the cause a moral authority, and the shawled mother puts need in front of the viewer.

The Brighton & Hove Women's Franchise Society issued this 1909 poster, printed by Weiners Ltd. of Acton and titled 'Justice Demands the Vote'. A robed Justice with scales stands on steps beside a woman holding a banner, their way barred by a cord between two posts, while in the foreground a shawled woman holds an infant beside a fashionably dressed woman. Transfer lends the cause the moral standing of allegorical Justice, and appeal to emotion places the mother and child before the viewer.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
JUSTICE DEMANDS THE VOTE
```

Smaller text on the banner and imprint is not read here.

[← "Handicapped!" (Artists' Suffrage League poster, London, 1909)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/handicapped-artists-suffrage-league-1909/) [The fleet protects the nation - Prudential Life Insurance protects the home (Puck centerfold, 1909) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/prudential-fleet-protects-nation-1909/)

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