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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.
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
Allen argued that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Minor v. Happersett required a natural-born citizen to be born in the U.S. of two U.S. citizen parents; however, the judge dismissed the suit on March 7, 2012, ruling that "President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution" and that "[c]ontrary to Plaintiff's assertion, Minor
(Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. at 167.) So, if there is in fact any reliable secondary source out there that confirms the notion that, per Minor v. Happersett, one must be born in the US of two American parents in order to be a "natural-born citizen" and eligible to serve as President, In re Lockwood does not appear to be that source.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 November 2024. Clause of the US Constitution specifying natural born US citizenship to run for President Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for holding the office of president or vice president ...
The Liberty Legal Foundation has cited a passage in the decision on an 1875 voting rights case which came before the U.S. Supreme Court – Minor v. Happersett – in which the court stated there was no doubt that "all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens" were natural-born citizens.
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)