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Minor vs Happerset
In 1875, the Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett said that while women may be citizens, all citizens were not necessarily voters, and states were not required to allow women to vote. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment affirming women%u2019s right to vote steamrolled out of Congress in 1919, getting more than half the ratifications it needed in the first year. -
The right to vote
Secretary of State in Washington, DC issued the 19th Amendment%u2019s proclamation immediately, before breakfast on August 26, 1920, in order to head off any final obstructionism. -
Creation
ERA was created by Alice Paul, preposed that there would be 100% equality between women and men, without having women be able to be drafted into the army. -
Senecca Falls
In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman%u2019s Rights Convention, she introduced the "Lucretia Mott Amendment,"Proposed "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." -
Lucrecia Mott Amendment
The amendment was introduced in every session of Congress until it passed in reworded form in 1972, before that it had been discussed since 1923 -
Current Date
The bill has still not been passed. # 110th Congress (2007-2008), it has been introduced as S.J.Res. 10 (lead sponsor: Sen. Edward Kennedy, MA) and H.J.Res. 40 (lead sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney, NY). These bills impose no deadline on the ERA ratification process. Success in putting the ERA into the Constitution via this process would require passage by a two-thirds in each house of Congress and ratification by 38 states.
