19 Amendment to the US Constitution allowed women to vote
The US Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on June 4, 1919. The amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in elections.
The first attempts of American women to get the same suffrage with men are dated back to 1848. Women organized public meetings in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women's rights. Many observers scoffed at their demand. By the beginning of the twentieth century, this requirement became the centerpiece of the entire women's movement.
On January 10, 1918, President Wilson formally declared his support for a federal amendment on the right to vote for women. The next day, the House of Representatives adopted the amendment by 274 votes to 136, gaining the necessary two-thirds majority.
“The voting rights of citizens of the United States must not be selected or limited to the United States or individual states on the basis of gender. Congress has the right to implement this amendment with the relevant legislation,” says the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
After ratification of the amendment by all states, in August 1920, it entered into force throughout the United States. The amendment has become one of the main democratic reforms in the history of the United States. In the United States, as in the country of case law, it had a great influence on the expansion of other political rights and freedoms of women.
The first attempts of American women to get the same suffrage with men are dated back to 1848. Women organized public meetings in Seneca Falls, New York, to discuss women's rights. Many observers scoffed at their demand. By the beginning of the twentieth century, this requirement became the centerpiece of the entire women's movement.
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On January 10, 1918, President Wilson formally declared his support for a federal amendment on the right to vote for women. The next day, the House of Representatives adopted the amendment by 274 votes to 136, gaining the necessary two-thirds majority.
“The voting rights of citizens of the United States must not be selected or limited to the United States or individual states on the basis of gender. Congress has the right to implement this amendment with the relevant legislation,” says the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
After ratification of the amendment by all states, in August 1920, it entered into force throughout the United States. The amendment has become one of the main democratic reforms in the history of the United States. In the United States, as in the country of case law, it had a great influence on the expansion of other political rights and freedoms of women.
