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What does 19A stand for?

Nineteenth Amendment


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98) Justice Ginsburg, writing for the Virginia Court, noted that historically sex-based classifications have operated to disenfranchise women from the democratic process, highlighting the fact that women were not considered a part of "We the People" until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
1894: Twenty-six years before the Nineteenth Amendment is enacted, the Iowa legislature grants women the right to vote in some cases, called "partial suffrage.
27) But the most obvious such amendments are those that extended the franchise: the Fifteenth Amendment, extending the vote to all races; (28) the Nineteenth Amendment, extending the vote to women; (29) the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, extending the vote to those who could not afford to pay a poll tax, (30) and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, extending the vote to all those at least eighteen years old.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Perhaps it hardly needs stating that this is a historical image, one plucked from the pages of Life magazine and documenting a 1970 Women's Liberation demonstration, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Following state ratification a year later, it enfranchised American women nationwide in the form of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
The question that will be asked in the North, which is the nineteenth amendment, is exactly the same but a "Yes" vote will bring about not one, but six, constitutional amendments.
And women in the United States, after all, could not even vote until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.
And in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote.

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