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  United States Constitution - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The U.S. Constitution calls itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this clause to mean that when state constitutions or laws passed by state legislatures or by the national Congress are found to conflict with the federal Constitution, these laws have no force.
The Constitution divides the defense responsibility between the legislative and executive branches: Congress alone has the power to declare war and to appropriate funds for defense, while the president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and bears primary responsibility for the defense of the country.
Article Six establishes the Constitution and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it as the supreme law of the land.
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 ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Constitution of the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
The twenty-first amendment to the Constitution was proposed to the several states by the Seventy-Second Congress, on the 20th day of February, 1933, and was declared, in a proclamation by the Secretary of State, dated on the 5th day of December, 1933, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States.
The amendment was rejected by Mississippi (and not subsequently ratified) on December 20, 1962.
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 FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Amendments
The amendment was rejected by Georgia on July 24, 1919; by Alabama on September 22, 1919; by South Carolina on January 29, 1920; by Virginia on February 12, 1920; by Maryland on February 24, 1920; by Mississippi on March 29, 1920; by Louisiana on July 1, 1920.
The amendment was rejected by a convention in the State of South Carolina, on December 4, 1933.
Proclamation was by the Archivist of the United States, pursuant to 1 U.S.C. Sec.
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 Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The amendment prohibits both the federal government and the states from using a person's sex as a qualification to vote; it was specifically intended to extend suffrage to women.
On February 27, 1922, a challenge to the 19th Amendment was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v.
Unlike the other voting rights amendments (the 15th, 23rd and 26th), the Congressional power of enforcement clause was kept in the same section as the granting of the right.
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 United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Mississippi, December 4, 1865.
The amendment was rejected (and not subsequently ratified) by Tennessee, November 16, 1869.
Note 12: The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States (and two others, one of which failed of ratification and the other which later became the 27th amendment) were proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the First Congress on September 25, 1789.
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 World War I and the Rise of Totalitarianism 1917-1940 The Tree of Liberty
Our united demand for political treatment has been delayed, because on entering the workhouse we found conditions so very bad that before we could ask that the suffragists be treated as political prisoners, it was necessary to make a stand for the ordinary rights of human beings for all the inmates.
Although the Dies Committee had the duty to investigate "the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States," the congressional debate reflected the difficulty of defining the meaning of "un-American." In 1945, the Dies Committee became the standing House Committee on Un-American Activities.
By un-American activities we mean organizations or groups existing in the United States which are directed, controlled or subsidized by foreign governments or agencies and which seek to change the policies and form of government of the United States in accordance with the wishes of such foreign governments...
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 Close Up Foundation Civics Education | Constitution of the United States
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
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 UniCAM Focus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1920.
The United States Constitution was ratified in 1789.
That grant was awarded to the state of Louisiana by Congress to increase the number of computers in rural schools.
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 U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Constitution of the United States
Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government.
Membership in the House is apportioned according to the population of the states.
The 13th amendment abolished slavery and the 14th amendment provided that representation would be determined according to the whole number of persons in each state, not by the “three-fifths” of the slaves.
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 State Suffrage Laws:Law Library of Congress
When it was ratified in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granted the right to vote to women.
Every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of this State one year.
Because the various state laws on voting rights were arbitrary, it was necessary for the suffragists to mount a national effort for securing the franchise.
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 February 27
1922 - A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1939 - Sit-down strikes are outlawed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
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 Key Figures in Women’s History
For casting a vote in the presidential election held on November 5, 1872, as she asserted the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled her to do, she was served a warrant and fined, but she never paid the fine.
She was defended at trial by Matilda Joslyn Gage, who asserted that it was the United States that was truly on trial, not Anthony.
Their focus was lobbying for a constitutional amendment to secure the right to vote for women.
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 Alan Rogers | 'Finish the fight': The Struggle for Women's Jury Service in Massachusetts, 1920–1994 | The ...
Following enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment, she emphasized women's professional experience and educational accomplishments and concluded that mixed juries would bring "a deeper understanding and a broader general experience than could be expected from a jury of either sex alone."
The state's jury service statute stipulated that "a person qualified to vote for representatives to the general court shall be liable to serve as a juror." Therefore, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the legislature's subsequent reenactment of this statute threatened to open the way for women jurors.
A United States assistant attorney general, Mable Willebrant, told a Boston audience that women jurors probed "beneath the surface" and were not "as susceptible to the wiles of attorneys" as men.
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 Petition to Repeal the Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment caused government spending to skyrocket, which converted the United States, its Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, into a totalitarian state.
Professor John Lott of the Law School University of Chicago proved that it was women's suffrage, and nothing else, which caused this unbridled government growth.
Federal spending as a percent of GDP began its chronic increase right after the Nineteenth Amendment was passed and is now 10 times what it had been for the century prior to that.
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 Petition to Repeal the Nineteenth Amendment
Professor John Lott of the Law School University of Chicago proved statistically that it was women's suffrage, and nothing else, which caused this unbridled government growth.
Professor Lott demonstrated that the reason the increase in federal expenditures resulting from the First World War didn't return to its previous historic level was due solely to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921.
Until the Nineteenth Amendment is repealed, Christian women are invited to sign the following proxy statement, file it with their local county recorder, and fax the signed statement to 866 721 5995:
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 suffrage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Women had won the right to vote in some state elections prior to the passage of the nineteenth amendment.
Women in the western territories and states were voting long before the national woman's suffrage amendment of 1920.
By 1904, 20 states allowed women to vote for school boards; in other states and municipalities, women voted on tax measures.
www.lwvofvt.org /suffrage.htm   (678 words)

  
 The Gift of Memory: Historical Timeline
The Thirteenth Amendment is passed in Congress outlawing slavery in the United States.
National Archives and Records Administration: Amendments 11-27 to the Constitution of the United States
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States' Constitution.
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 Thomas C. Duffy, composer
Set in the three simple "Greek" modes-lonian, dorian and aeolian- (as the American democratic system was modeled after the democracies of Greece), this celebratory piece sings the praises of the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution.
The text contains the most apparent message, combining the Preamble of the Constitution and the Nineteenth Amendment, and adding the names of nineteen women who have distinguished themselves as world-class artists, scientists, naturalists, or otherwise great thinkers.
In the first section, the Preamble is set so that references to the United States of 1776 can be heard through short musical quotes from the Star-spangled Banner, the British Grenadiers, and My Country Tis of Thee.
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 FindLaw: U.S. Constitution: Nineteenth Amendment
The Amendment was adopted after a long campaign by its advocates who had largely despaired of attaining their goal through modification of individual state laws.
Progress continued to be discouraging, only ten additional States having joined Wyoming by 1914, and, judicial efforts having failed,1 and a vigorous campaign brought congressional passage of a proposed Amendment and the necessary state ratifications.
Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162 (1875), a challenge under the privileges of immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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 Biography of Orpha Gatch
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which provided women with the right to vote was ratified on August 26, 1920.
Gatch was a member of the Milford United Methodist Church where, over the years she sang in the choir, taught Sunday School and headed the Women's Society.
Gatch was an active member of the Smith Club of Cincinnati, the Milford Historical Society, the Patterson Library, and the Cincinnati Nature Center.
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 A Seventy two Year Struggle The Longest Civil Rights Battle in U.S. History | The Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On August 18, 1920 the state of Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1920- the Nineteenth Amendment is ratified, granting suffrage to women.
Today there are 13 women in the United States Senate and 61 in the House of Representatives.
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 UMKC School of Law
Dean Ellen Suni is one of three Spurgeon Smithson Award winners this year in the state of Missouri.
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Missouri chief justice honors Patrick McLarney, a member of the UMKC Law Board of Trustees, for his efforts to protect our state justice system
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 National Woman's Party and Suffrage for African-American Women, DBQ, Part B
Directions:  Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs, and a conclusion.  Use evidence from at least five documents in the body of the essay.  Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details.  Include additional outside information.
Although the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1920, was designed to give all women suffrage, many fl women were denied this right.
Using information from the documents and your knowledge of United States history, write an essay in which you:
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