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Which amendment to the constitution removed gender as a qualification for voting?
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August 18, 1920 ratified the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote
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What amendment determined voting qualification of gender?
amendment 19
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.
What is The only reference to gender in the constitution is?
The 19th amendment
What is the only reference to gender in the constitution?
John Bingham referenced gender in the U.S. Constitution for the first time when writing the Fourteenth Amendment. The amendment is worded to specifically address the rights of males.
Which amendment removed from the states of power to determine voting qualifications based on gender?
Amendment 19
List and describe the changes made by the Supreme Court in 1979 towards the constitution in order to make it gender-neutral?
In 1979, the Supreme Court adopted the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. This clause made the amendment more gender-neutral. The Supreme Court pushed for gender-appropriate language to be adopted
What is the ninetieth amendment?
There is not yet a ninetieth amendment to the Constitution. There are twenty-seven amendments total. If you meant "nineteenth," the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (ratified August 18, 1920) guaranteed equal voting rights regardless of gender.
Which amendment in the Constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in American schools?
9th, it declares any rights of the people not said in the Constitution already are ordained.
Which amendment removed from the states the powers to determined voting qualifications based on gender?
The 19th Amendment, which resulted in women gaining the right to vote in all US states.
Does the constitution allow a woman to be president and what amendment discusses this?
The US Constitution requires the President to be a US citizen by birth, and aged at least 35. There was never a requirement as to gender, before the Constitutional Amendment which gave women the right to vote, or since to the best of my knowledge.
What is the19th amendment?
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provided suffrage for women in 1920. Although the Fifteenth Amendment had given suffrage to every American citizen, women were not covered in that legislation. The Nineteenth Amendment, included 'by gender' as one of the discriminations that could not be allowed to stop a citizen from voting.
What rights protect the 19 amendment?
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects a persons right to vote regardless of gender. In other words, women were given the right to vote.Jack N. Rove, Editor. (2009) The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, UP. p. 281
