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Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162 (1875), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that citizenship does not confer a right to vote, and therefore state laws barring women from voting are constitutionally valid.
The Supreme Court of the United States first considered the Expatriation Act of 1907 in the 1915 case MacKenzie v. Hare. [168] The plaintiff, a suffragist named Ethel MacKenzie, was living in California, which since 1911 had extended the franchise to women.
Happersett, the Supreme Court rules that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not grant women the right to vote. [3] 1874: There is a referendum in Michigan on women's suffrage, but women's suffrage loses. [3] 1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3]
After U.S. Supreme Court decisions between 1873 and 1875 denied voting rights to women in connection with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, suffrage groups shifted their efforts to advocating for a new constitutional amendment.
Minor v. Happersett goes to the Supreme Court, where it is decided that suffrage is not a right of citizenship and women do not necessarily have the right to vote. [25] 1876. Native Americans are ruled non-citizens and ineligible to vote by the Supreme Court of the United States. [12]
Republic of New Granada: The Province of Vélez, in what was then the Republic of New Granada (modern day Colombia), grants universal suffrage to men and women. The Supreme Court annulled the provision for women a few years later. [20] 1856 Norfolk Island following population transfer from Pitcairn.
Taylor v. Louisiana is a Supreme Court case that stated women could not be excluded from a venire, or jury pool, on the basis of having to register for jury duty. [citation needed] On February 19, the Texas Supreme Court's ruling in the case Jacobs v. Theimer makes it the first state in America to allow a woman to sue her doctor for a wrongful ...
Susan B. Anthony. United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony in a U.S. federal court in 1873. The defendant was a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting in Rochester, New York in the 1872 elections in violation of state laws that allowed only men to vote.