Nineteenth Amendment
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women, for example, it specifically rejected a proposal to allow only states to enforce the amendment.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
So there are no women in Congress the following year, when it finally votes to pass the Nineteenth Amendment.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 16, 2016
Most who were involved in the movement at the beginning did not live to see the Nineteenth Amendment become law, but their work changed the United States.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
In 1919, Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Febb Ensminger Burn, Harry Burn's mother; who wrote to her son encouraging him to support the Nineteenth Amendment.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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