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A women's suffrage amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1868. Ten years later, suffrage supporters proposed the soâ€called Anthony Amendment, named for Susan B. http://www.answers.com/topic/anthony-saint, which was modeled after the http://www.answers.com/topic/amendment-xv-to-the-u-s-constitution Amendment. It provided that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." This was to become the language of section 1 of the Nineteenth Amendment, but fortyâ€two years were to go by before it became part of the Constitution.
Unsure of the prospects of a constitutional amendment, suffragists simultaneously resorted to litigation, with no success. Anthony was prosecuted for attempting to vote when she had no "lawful right" to do so (United States v. Anthony, 1873). http://www.answers.com/topic/Virginia-minor brought a civil suit in an attempt to enforce her right to vote in national elections as a http://www.answers.com/topic/privileges-and-immunities or immunity of national citizenship. The Supreme Court rejected this argument, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment did not confer the right to vote on women any more than it conferred such a right on children, the insane, or criminals (http://www.answers.com/topic/minor-v-happersett, 1875). This result conformed to the Court's restrictive interpretation of the clause in the http://www.answers.com/topic/slaughterhouse-cases of 1873.
Impelled by women's activism in the temperance, social work, and other reform crusades, and taking advantage of the changing social environment wrought by http://www.answers.com/topic/world-war-i War I, the http://www.answers.com/topic/suffragist movement succeeded in persuading Congress to enact the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919. It was ratified on 18 August 1920.
According to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution everyone has the equal right of voting irrespective of sex(gender).i.e Men and women have an equal right to vote.
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You can work on the united state constitution and proposal and ratification of the 19 amendment.
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An amendment to the Constitution becomes part of the Constitution itself.
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The 16th Amendment to the Constitution
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19-20
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speakeasies were created
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the change of the Constitution is an amendment
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The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote.
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No, thus the amendments. Each amendment has added one provision or other to the constitution. For example, women couldn't vote until that became an amendment to the constitution
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The 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitutions guarantees that all women shall have the right to vote. All men and women shall be created equal.
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The 2nd Amendment refers to the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution. It does not compare to the Constitution, it is part OF the Constitution.
