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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]
Other states followed suit at a regular pace, until the amendment had been ratified by 35 of the necessary 36 state legislatures. After Washington on March 22, 1920, ratification languished for months. Finally, on August 18, 1920, Tennessee narrowly ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, making it the law throughout the United States. [271]
The Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited the denial of suffrage because of sex, was colloquially known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] After it was ratified in 1920, the National American Woman Suffrage Association , whose character and policies were strongly influenced by Anthony, was transformed into the League of Women ...
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 ...
On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The amendment came after more than 70 years of struggle for women suffragists ...
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.
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.
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]