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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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Amendment XIX (the Nineteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution states:

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.

Interpretation and history

This amendment gives the right to vote to women.

On February 27, 1922 a challenge to the 19th Amendment was rebuffed by the United States Supreme Court.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/amendments_11-27.html#19

Date Ratified

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