Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as the 150th anniversary of the first women voting in Utah, which was the first state in the nation where women cast a ballot. [143] An annual celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as Women's Equality Day, began on August 26, 1973. [144]
Freedom of the Press: The First Amendment: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate (2008) Martin, Robert W.T. The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty, 1640–1800 (2012). Nelson, Harold Lewis, ed. Freedom of the Press from Hamilton to the Warren Court (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967) Powe, Lucas A.
Doris Stevens, suffragist, author of Jailed for Freedom. Jailed for Freedom is a book by Doris Stevens. [1] Originally published in 1920, it was reissued by New Sage Press in 1995 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2]
Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, which established the Constitutional Council, proposed the Independent Commissions 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.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=19th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution&oldid=16276957"
Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a general citizen, in a state that already had women's suffrage, lacked standing to challenge the validity of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. [1]
Language links are at the top of the page. Search. Search
Notes 1] As women could not vote, the tax did not apply to them until 1920, when the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution legally enfranchised them. [12] [13] May Thompson Evans, c. 1940. After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, states that had poll tax as a prerequisite for voting responded in different ways.