Nineteenth Amendment

Examples of Nineteenth Amendment in the following topics:

• The 19th Amendment

  • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
  • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

• Women vs. Men

  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote and, today, women vote at similar rates to men.
  • Women were not allowed to vote in all elections until the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Women's suffrage, the movement to achieve the female vote, was won gradually at state and local levels during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which provided:
  • To appreciate the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, one must look back to the mid-nineteenth century.
  • The Nineteenth Amendment was passed the year following the Treaty of Paris, which ended World War I.

• Informal Methods of Amending the Constitution: Societal Change and Judicial Review

  • However, formal recognition of the right of poor whites and black males, and later of women, was only fully secured in the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the Nineteenth Amendment (1920).

• Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

  • In response to this pressure the Senate finally relented and approved what later became the Seventeenth Amendment for fear that such a convention—if permitted to assemble—might stray to include issues above and beyond the direct election of U.S.
  • Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified, Congress has specified the method of ratification through state conventions for only one: the 21st Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1933.
  • The states unanimously ratified the Bill of Rights; the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment, providing for equal protection and due process; the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting; and the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women a federal constitutional right to vote.

• Features of Progressivism

  • Disturbed by the waste, inefficiency, and corruption of the late nineteenth century, Progressivism was committed to reforming every facet of the state, society and economy.
  • The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people, instead of by state legislatures.
  • In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified, and a small income tax imposed on high incomes.
  • The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacturing, sale and transport of alcohol.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage

  • Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote.
  • Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote.
  • After the American Civil War, both Stanton and Anthony broke with their abolitionist backgrounds and lobbied strongly against ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution, which granted African American men the right to vote.
  • In the decade following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, both Stanton and Anthony increasingly took the position, first advocated by Victoria Woodhull, that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments actually did give women the right to vote.
  • They argued that the Fourteenth Amendment, which defined citizens as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," included women and that the Fifteenth Amendment provided all citizens with the right to vote.

• The Women's Rights Movement

  • The resulting scandal, and its negative impact on the country's international reputation at a time when Wilson was trying to build a reputation for himself and the nation as an international leader in human rights, may have contributed to Wilson's decision to publicly call for the United States Congress to pass the Suffrage Amendment.
  • After the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920, the NWP turned its attention to eliminating other forms of gender discrimination, principally by advocating passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Paul drafted in 1923.
  • Evaluate how the actions of the National Women's Party pressured Wilson to support the Suffrage Amendment

• The Reconstruction Amendments

  • The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868, was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.
  • Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly.
  • The Fourteenth Amendment, depicted here, allowed for the incorporation of the First Amendment against the states.

• Laissez-Faire and the Supreme Court

  • Supreme Court case that held that the notion of a "liberty of contract" was implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • Lochner's appeal was based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which provides the following: "... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
  • Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court established that the Due Process Clause (found in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments) is not merely a procedural guarantee, but also a substantive limitation on the type of control the government may exercise over individuals.
  • Although this interpretation of the Due Process Clause is a controversial one, it had become firmly embedded in American jurisprudence by the end of the nineteenth century.
  • He also attacked the idea that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the unbridled liberty of contract, writing that, "[t]he Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr.