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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.
From 'Wong Kim Ark' - "Minor v. Happersett (1874), 21 Wall. 162, 166-168. The [B]decision[/B] in that case was that a woman born of citizen parents within the United States was a citizen of the United States, although not entitled to vote, the right to the elective franchise not being essential to citizenship.".
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.
The suit demanded that Reese Happersett be ordered to register Virginia Minor to vote and pay damages in the sum of $10,000." [ 5 ] After losing in circuit court, Francis appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri , where he had served as a clerk until stepping down on May 1, 1873, so as not to give the appearance of a conflict of interest. [ 6 ]