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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.
Case name Citation Summary Totten v. United States: 92 U.S. 105 (1875) Jurisdiction over espionage agreements. Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard: 87 U.S. 498 (1874) Patent eligibility of abstract ideas. Murdock v. City of Memphis: 87 U.S. 590 (1875) Jurisdiction over state court decisions. Minor v. Happersett: 88 U.S. 162 (1875)
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 ...
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
[note 3] In Minor v. Happersett [ 23 ] the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not provide voting rights to U.S. citizens; it only guaranteed additional protection of privileges to citizens who already had them.
Minor v. Happersett goes to the Supreme Court, where it is decided that suffrage is not a right of citizenship and women do not necessarily have the right to vote. [24] 1876. Native Americans are ruled non-citizens and ineligible to vote by the Supreme Court of the United States. [11]
Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875) Nineteenth Amendment (1920) Right of citizens to vote is not to be abridged on account of sex. Breedlove v. Suttles, 302 U.S. 277 (1937) Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964) Right of citizens to vote is not to be abridged by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Oregon v. Mitchell, 400 U.S. 112 (1970)
The case that went to SCOTUS in 1874, Minor v. Happersett was not ruled in the suffragists' favor. Instead of challenging the courts for suffrage, Missouri suffragists continued to lobby for changes in legislation. In April 1919, they gained the right to vote in presidential elections.