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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.
Virginia Louisa Minor (March 27, 1824 – August 14, 1894) was an American women's suffrage activist in Missouri. She is best remembered as the plaintiff in Minor v.. Happersett, an 1875 United States Supreme Court case in which Minor unsuccessfully argued that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the righ
(Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. at 167.) So, if there is in fact any reliable secondary source out there that confirms the notion that, per Minor v. Happersett, one must be born in the US of two American parents in order to be a "natural-born citizen" and eligible to serve as President, In re Lockwood does not appear to be that source.
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Minor v. Happersett: 88 U.S. 162 (1875) Fourteenth Amendment and the right of women to vote. Kohl v. United States: 91 U.S. 367 (1875) Eminent domain. Phillips v. Payne: 92 U.S. 105 (1875) Validity of retrocession of Alexandria County from the District of Columbia to Virginia. United States v. Reese: 92 U.S. 214 (1876) Fifteenth Amendment and ...
Allen argued that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Minor v. Happersett required a natural-born citizen to be born in the U.S. of two U.S. citizen parents; however, the judge dismissed the suit on March 7, 2012, ruling that "President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution" and that "[c]ontrary to Plaintiff's assertion, Minor
Minor v. Happersett (1875): In a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Waite, the court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote. The ruling was effectively overturned by the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. United States v.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Clause of the US Constitution specifying natural born US citizenship to run for President Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president ...