Nineteenth Amendment

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Washington Times

“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.

From Seattle Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Literature

On August 13, after a number of long speeches, the Senate approved ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by a vote of 25 to 4.

From Literature