U.S. Constitution · Amendment XIX, Section 1 · ratified 1920-08-18
Right to Vote Not Denied by Sex, section 1
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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.
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In the founders’ words
- “We have made partners of the women in this war; shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?” Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment, September 30, 1918 (1918-09-30)
- “We shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is now certain that the other great free nations will enfranchise them.” Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment, September 30, 1918 (1918-09-30)
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Leading Supreme Court cases
- Leser v. Garnett, 258 U.S. 130 (1922)
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Values for America Constitution Explorer, https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution (text: National Archives transcription, public domain), Amendment XIX, Section 1, https://www.valuesforamerica.com/constitution/amendment-19/section-1
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