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The Constitution of the State of Arizona is the governing ... The Arizona Constitution is divided into a preamble and 30 articles, numbered 1–6, 6.1, 7–22, and 25 ...
Madge Udall in a 1913 woman suffrage parade. The movement for women's suffrage in Arizona began in the late 1800s. After women's suffrage was narrowly voted down at the 1891 Arizona Constitutional Convention, prominent suffragettes such as Josephine Brawley Hughes and Laura M. Johns formed the Arizona Suffrage Association and began touring the state campaigning for women's right to vote.
When Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, an attempt to legislate a women's suffrage amendment to the Arizona Constitution failed. Frances Munds mounted a successful ballot initiative campaign. On November 5, 1912, women's suffrage passed in Arizona. In 1913, the voter registration books were opened to women.
“Ensuring this right in the constitution gives Arizona voters the certainty that they’ll need to understand what their reproductive rights are and, again, take those matters back into their ...
NBC News projects the constitutional amendment has won enough votes to pass. It’s one of 10 pro-abortion rights measures on the ballot across the country Tuesday.
Arkansas became the first state that did not have equal suffrage to pass a primary election law for women. [301] After the passage of the primary election law, women worked to reorganize, make sure that women paid poll taxes, and educate voters.
Abortion will be protected in Arizona until the point of fetal viability after voters approved a ballot amendment codifying those protections into the state constitution, according to a projection ...
Arizona: Married women are granted separate economy. [4] Arizona: Married women are granted trade license. [4] 1872. New York: The state makes it a penalty to perform an abortion, with a criminal sentence of between 4 and 20 years in prison. [8] Pennsylvania: Married women are granted control over their earnings. [4]