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  2. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.

  3. We Demand the Right to Vote - Wikipedia

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    [1] Wall researched the topic and worked with historians to write the book. [1] The book is an overview of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. [2] We Demand was the winner in the history category and "Best of Show" in 2020 Southwest Book Design and Production Awards Competition sponsored by the New Mexico Book Association. [3]

  4. Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The amendment was proposed as part of the congressional debate over the 1909 Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act; by proposing the amendment, Aldrich hoped to temporarily defuse progressive calls for the imposition of new taxes in the tariff act. Aldrich and other conservative leaders in Congress largely opposed the actual ratification of the amendment ...

  5. An anti-polygamy amendment was proposed by Representative Frederick Gillett, a Massachusetts Republican, on January 24, 1914, and supported by former U.S. Senator from Utah, Frank J. Cannon, and by the National Reform Association. [16] Utah was dominated by the LDS Church, which permitted multiple marriages until 1890.

  6. History of the United States (1865–1917) - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction gave male, Black farmers, businessmen and soldiers the right to vote for the first time in 1867, as celebrated by Harper's Weekly on its front cover, Nov. 16, 1867. [3] Reconstruction was the period from 1863 to 1877, in which the federal government temporarily took control—one by one—of the Southern states of the Confederacy.

  7. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    For the amendment's centennial, several organizations announced large events or exhibits, including the National Constitution Center and National Archives and Records Administration. [16] [146] On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned Susan B. Anthony. [147]

  8. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    It informed Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, [v] his contemporary and ally Benito Juárez of Mexico, [w] and the second generation of 19th-century constitutional nationalists, José Rizal of the Philippines [x] and Sun Yat-sen of China. [y] The framers of the Australian constitution integrated federal ideas from the U.S. and other ...

  9. List of clauses of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The United States Constitution and its amendments comprise hundreds of clauses which outline the functioning of the United States Federal Government, the political relationship between the states and the national government, and affect how the United States federal court system interprets the law. When a particular clause becomes an important ...