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Paul charged that the amendment passed only because "it at last became more expedient for those in control of the Government to aid suffrage than to oppose it". [63] Sewing stars on a suffrage flag. Congress proposed the Nineteenth Amendment on June 4, 1919, and the following states ratified the amendment. [64] [65]
At the turn of the 19th century, Carrie Chapman Catt prioritized leading the two-million-member NAWSA to advocate for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. After a series of votes in Congress and in state legislatures, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
The resolution passed in the House but was defeated by the Senate. The following year—after Rankin's congressional term had ended—the same resolution passed both chambers. [c] After ratification by three-fourths of the states, it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [29]
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that every vote — past, present, and future — matters a lot. Amelia McNeil-Maddox, an 18-year-old voter from Maine, says the coincidence of the ...
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol.
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...
The Senate passed the amendment, with 39 Republicans voting "Yea" and eight Democrats and five Republicans voting "Nay"; 13 Republicans and one Democrat did not vote. [32] Some Radical Republicans, such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, abstained from voting because the amendment did not prohibit literacy tests and poll taxes. [33]
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.