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Can a states constitution keep women from voting in that state?
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∙ 13y ago
im pretty sure no.... bc its in the constitution that women get the right to vote, so i dont think that its the states choice
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Why were states allowed to determine women’s voting eligibility?
The U.S. Constitution as drafted in 1787 did not specify eligibility requirements for voting. It left that power to the states. Therefore each state could have different requirements for voter eligibility.
Where there any states that allowed women to vote before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed?
Voting is a matter for state laws except when the Constitution sets a specific mandate for federal electors. Nothing in the U.S. Constitution forbid women from voting, but it did not require voting equality by sex until the 19th Amendment. Before then, some western states began permitting women to vote and hold office, state and federal. (Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives from Montana in 1916.)
Which state became the first to grant women full voting rights in 1890?
The state of Wyoming granted women voting rights in 1890. Several other states, such as Oregon and Colorado, had granted voting rights to women before the 19th Amendment.
In the original Constitution did women have the right to vote?
No. The Constitution only uses the gender neutral "people" or "person" and never specifically mentions either sex, male or female. The Constitution was thus phrased to apply equally to both women and men.Contrary to common opinion, women were not denied the right to vote by the original Constitution--the individual states were left to determine their own requirements for voting. It was at the state level that women were unconstitutionally denied their right to vote. The states lost the power to exclude citizens from voting on the basis of sex with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Was there a provision in the constitution forbidding women's suffrage?
No, there was no specific provision in the US Constitution forbidding women's suffrage, even though it took a formal Amendment to make this clear. Article 4, Section 2, states that the Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all priveleges and immunities of citizens in the several states. At the time the Constitution was adopted, the common law was that women could not vote. By not having any specific provision in the Constitution about women's suffrage, the states retained the power to regulate voting. The common law against women voting was simply carried over by implication. Because this discrimination appeared to be legal under the Constitution, the 19th Amendment prohibitting denial of the right to vote on account of sex was adopted so that no state could continue that practice.
Why did congress pass the suffrage amendment?
To give equal voting rights to women. Congress did not enact that amendment or any other. The STATES amended the Constitution to allow female voting.
This amendment removed from the states the power to determine voting qualifications based on gender?
The 19th Amendment to the constitution removed from the states the power to base voting rights on gender. This amendment allowing women's suffrage was ratified in 1920.
Who gave ladies voting rights?
In different countries, suffragettes and women's rights activists fought for and achieved women's voting rights. For example, in the United States, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1920, granting women the right to vote.
Which was the first to give women full voting rights?
Unrestricted women's suffrage in terms of voting rights was adopted in New Zealand in 1893, the first country to do so. Woman suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th Century and early 20th Century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which provided: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote are not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Wyoming
What prohibited women from owning property or voting in the civil war?
The Constitution
What did the ninteenth amendment to the constitution change about voting?
it gaved the vote to women
Prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment what was the state of voting rights for women in the US?
they could vote in many states but not all of them
