Private: Votes for Women: The Story of the Amendment

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Rights, Equality, and Citizenship
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Women in Early America (1600-1800)
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Shall Women Have the Right to Vote? (1866-1890)
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Activate Knowledge: Amending the Constitution

Private: Votes for Women: The Story of the Amendment Shall Women Have the Right to Vote? (1866-1890) Activate Knowledge: Amending the Constitution

Article V: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof…

The United States constitutional system is designed to respect the authority of the people in individual states to make laws that are different from state to state. How does the Constitution’s amendment process illustrate the principle of federalism?

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