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19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ...
The 19th, sometimes stylized The 19th*, is a nonprofit, independent news organization based in Austin, Texas [148] which is named after the Nineteenth Amendment, reflecting the organization's mission "to empower women—particularly those underserved by and underrepresented in American media—with the information, community and tools they need ...
19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF ...
Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women. 1923. Texas passes a white primary law. [36] 1924
Constitutional amendment proposals considered in but not approved by Congress during the 19th century included: The Dueling Ban Amendment, proposed in 1838 after Representative William Graves killed another Representative, Jonathan Cilley, in a duel, would have prohibited any person involved in a duel from holding federal office.
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nineteenth Amendment .
An initiated constitutional amendment is an amendment to a state's constitution that results from petitioning by a state's citizens. By utilizing this initiative process, citizens can propose and vote on constitutional amendments directly, without need of legislative referral. When a sufficient number of citizens have signed a petition ...