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Nineteenth Amendment

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Noun1.Nineteenth Amendment - an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex
Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution, United States Constitution, US Constitution, Constitution - the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"


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98) Justice Ginsburg, writing for the Virginia Court, noted that historically sex-based classifications have operated to disenfranchise women from the democratic process, highlighting the fact that women were not considered a part of "We the People" until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
1894: Twenty-six years before the Nineteenth Amendment is enacted, the Iowa legislature grants women the right to vote in some cases, called "partial suffrage.
27) But the most obvious such amendments are those that extended the franchise: the Fifteenth Amendment, extending the vote to all races; (28) the Nineteenth Amendment, extending the vote to women; (29) the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, extending the vote to those who could not afford to pay a poll tax, (30) and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, extending the vote to all those at least eighteen years old.
 
 
 
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