90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

filed under: God Bless America posted on August 18th, 2010

90th anniversary of the 19th amendment:

Did you know Ninety years ago today, women got the right to vote. Here’s the text of the 19th amendment, which was ratified on August 18, 1920, by the Tennessee General Assembly: “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.” Tennessee was the thirty-sixth state to ratify, giving the amendment the requisite approval of three-fourths of the states; the amendment passed because 24 year-old legislator Harry Burn changed his vote, at the insistence of his elderly mother.

My God Bless these United States

 

posted by Ark Rhowmine

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