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19th Amendment
(18 August 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.
Proposal and Ratification
The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States
was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the
Sixty-sixth Congress, on the 4th of June, 1919, and was declared,
in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 26th of
August, 1920, to have been ratified by the legislatures of 36 of
the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Illinois, June 10,
1919 (and that State readopted its resolution of ratification
June 17, 1919); Michigan, June 10, 1919; Wisconsin, June 10,
1919; Kansas, June 16, 1919; New York, June 16, 1919; Ohio, June
16, 1919; Pennsylvania, June 24, 1919; Massachusetts, June 25,
1919; Texas, June 28, 1919; Iowa, July 2, 1919; Missouri, July 3,
1919; Arkansas, July 28, 1919; Montana, August 2, 1919; Nebraska,
August 2, 1919; Minnesota, September 8, 1919; New Hampshire,
September 10, 1919; Utah, October 2, 1919; California, November
1, 1919; Maine, November 5, 1919; North Dakota, December 1, 1919;
South Dakota, December 4, 1919; Colorado, December 15, 1919;
Kentucky, January 6, 1920; Rhode Island, January 6, 1920; Oregon,
January 13, 1920; Indiana, January 16, 1920; Wyoming, January 27,
1920; Nevada, February 7, 1920; New Jersey, February 9, 1920;
Idaho, February 11, 1920; Arizona, February 12, 1920; New Mexico,
February 21, 1920; Oklahoma, February 28, 1920; West Virginia,
March 10, 1920; Washington, March 22, 1920; Tennessee, August 18,
1920.
Ratification was completed on August 18, 1920.
The amendment was subsequently ratified by Connecticut on
September 14, 1920 (and that State reaffirmed on September 21,
1920); Vermont, February 8, 1921; Delaware, March 6, 1923 (after
having rejected it on June 2, 1920); Maryland, March 29, 1941
(after having rejected it on February 24, 1920, ratification
certified on February 25, 1958); Virginia, February 21, 1952
(after having rejected it on February 12, 1920); Alabama,
September 8, 1953 (after having rejected it on September 22,
1919); Florida, May 13, 1969; South Carolina, July 1, 1969 (after
having rejected it on January 28, 1920, ratification certified on
August 22, 1973); Georgia, February 20, 1970 (after having
rejected it on July 24, 1919); Louisiana, June 11, 1970 (after
having rejected it on July 1, 1920); North Carolina, May 6, 1971;
Mississippi, March 22, 1984 (after having rejected it on March
29, 1920).
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