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Nineteenth Amendment

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Nineteenth Amendment
granted women right to vote (1920). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 409]
See : Equality


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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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