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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.
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 ...
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 (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.
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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]
For example, in 1875, the Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett noted that "citizenship has not in all cases been made a condition precedent to the enjoyment of the right of suffrage. Thus, in Missouri, persons of foreign birth, who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, may under certain circumstances vote."