Nineteenth Amendment

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote.

Example Sentences

The Senate passed the proposal a little more than 100 years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.

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“The Nineteenth Amendment Centennial Cookbook: 100 Recipes for 100 Years” is a nod to cookbooks published by suffragists a century ago as they worked to give women the right to vote.

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Reva B. Siegel, a professor at Yale Law School, is the author of the Yale Law Review Forum article “The Nineteenth Amendment and the Democratization of the Family.”

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The tour, which drew enormous audiences, was a huge success and was, in the opinion of many political experts, one of the final determining factors in the passage by Congress of the Nineteenth Amendment.

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Everyone expected Harry T. Burn to vote against the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

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