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The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage. [9] Maryland passes a law to allow Jews to vote. [10]
1913: Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women. [6] 1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only. [3] 1913: The Senate votes on a women's suffrage amendment, but it does not pass. [3]
In February 1919, a women's suffrage law to vote for presidential electors passed the state and would go out for a voter referendum on September 13, 1920. [118] In November of 1919, a special legislative session was called and Maine ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on November 5.
United States – Utah Territory passed a law granting women's suffrage. Utah women citizens voted in municipal elections that spring and a general election on August 1, beating Wyoming women to the polls. [28] The women's suffrage law was later repealed as part of the Edmunds–Tucker Act in 1887.
Passed the Senate on May 26, 1965 Passed the House with amendment on July 9, 1965 Reported by the joint conference committee on July 29, 1965; agreed to by the House on August 3, 1965 and by the Senate on August 4, 1965 Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 6, 1965
A law passed in 1807, however, excluded women from voting in that state. [21] Kentucky passed the first statewide woman suffrage law in the antebellum era (since New Jersey revoked their woman suffrage rights in 1807) in 1838 – allowing voting by any widow or feme sole (legally, the head of household) over 21 who resided in and owned property ...
By the time the United States Constitution came into effect on March 9, 1789, [11] a small number of free Blacks were among the voting citizens (men of property) in some states. [12] The Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible.
Presidents appoint federal judges. Treaties entered into by Congress are the supreme law of the land. All state judiciaries are bound to enforce treaties, state laws notwithstanding. The President can raise an army to enforce treaties in any state. States treat a violation of law in another state as though it happened there. [42]