this is a ard question
lawmakers are elected
this is a ard question
women were not aloud to serve in puritan governments. But rich males could.
No, it is not true that women can not be elected for presidency. Women can be elected for presidency.
Power of the State Government
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The first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress was Jeannette Rankin of Montana. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, four years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
If you are talking about the US senate, there have been a number of women who served a full term. The first woman to be elected to the senate (one woman was symbolically appointed for a day back in 1922) was Ophelia Wyatt "Hattie" Caraway from Arkansas. Caraway was elected in 1932, and she was then re-elected. But since then, among the women senators to serve a full term (or more) were Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, who served 24 years in the Senate (beginning in 1949); California's Diane Feinstein (who first was elected in 1992 and has won four subsequent elections, and more than twenty other women.
power of the state
seems to me, the opposite of oligarchy (rule by the privileged) would be democracy (rule by the people - by elected representation of course)
Jeannette Rankin, a US representative from Montana, was the first woman to serve in the US Congress, elected in 1916. This was three years before the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in the US. But Montana had already enacted women's suffrage laws in 1914, in part due to the efforts of women including Rankin.Rankin won a second time (in a different district) in 1940. A staunch pacifist, Rankin remains the only woman to have everrepresented Montana in Congress.
Warren G. Harding, elected in 1920, was the US first president to be elected after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified.