The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 19 (Nineteenth Amendment – Women’s Right to Vote)

The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 19 (19th Amendment)

Amendment XIX. (Women’s Right to Vote)

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919. Ratified August 18, 1920.

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.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

More

• The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
• Nineteenth Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
• Nineteenth Amendment – Wikipedia
• Nineteenth Amendment – Findlaw
• The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
• United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
• The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
• “Federalism and the Constitution: Limits on Congressional Power,” CRS Report RL30315
• “Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” CRS Report 97-922
• Election Capitol Hill Workshop
• “7 stages of the office seeker“
• Mid-Term Election
• “Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed),” CRS Report IB74122
• Election Capitol Hill Workshop
• Congressional Election Information
• Congressional Leadership and Committees
• Mid-Term Election
• “7 stages of the office seeker“
• “Women in the United States Congress,” CRS Report RL30261

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