Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

Prohibits laws respecting an establishment of religion and protects freedoms of religion speech and the press and the rights to assemble peaceably and petition the government.

The right of the citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex. Women s right to vote. The nineteenth amendment amendment xix to the united states constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the united states on the basis of sex. The amendment declares in part that the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex.

Women s right to vote. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are. Constitution officially extended the right to vote to women. 19th amendment to the u s.

General records of the united states government. When the constitution was written it was accepted that a woman did not have a separate legal identity from her husband. Thirty three amendments to the united states constitution have been proposed by the united states congress and sent to the states for ratification since the constitution was put into operation on march 4 1789. Twenty seven of these having been ratified by the requisite number of states are part of the constitution.

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Amendment text annotations. The movement called women s suffrage marked a radical change in how women were viewed in america. Nineteenth amendment women s suffrage rights. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The amendment marked the end of a long struggle for women in the united states that began in the mid nineteenth century. Nineteenth amendment annotated section 1 the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Initially introduced to congress in 1878 several attempts to pass a women s suffrage amendment failed until passing the house of representatives on may 21 1919 followed by the senate on.

The nineteenth amendment to the u s. Joint resolution of congress proposing a constitutional amendment extending the right of suffrage to women may 19 1919.