Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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amendment to the United States Constitution constitutional amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the 1920 constitutional change that prohibited denying the right to vote on the basis of sex, effectively guaranteeing women’s suffrage nationwide.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form	Occurrences
19th Amendment	1
19th Amendment to the United States Constitution	1
Nineteenth Amendment	1
Women’s Suffrage Amendment	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ constitutional amendment ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: 19th Amendment Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: Women’s Suffrage Amendment
appliesTo	federal elections ⓘ local elections ⓘ state elections ⓘ
cameIntoForceOn	1920-08-26 ⓘ
category	United States constitutional amendments ⓘ surface form: Amendments to the United States Constitution Suffrage in the United States ⓘ Women's rights in the United States ⓘ
containsSectionCount	2 ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
enforcementClauseText	Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ⓘ
finalRatifyingState	Tennessee ⓘ
followedBy	Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
grantsPowerTo	United States Congress ⓘ surface form: Congress
grantsPowerType	enforcement power ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Progressive Era ⓘ
influencedBy	National American Woman Suffrage Association ⓘ National Woman's Party ⓘ Seneca Falls, New York ⓘ surface form: Seneca Falls Convention women's suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ
jurisdiction	United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government
keyAdvocate	Alice Paul ⓘ Carrie Chapman Catt ⓘ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ⓘ Ida B. Wells ⓘ Lucy Stone ⓘ Susan B. Anthony ⓘ
legalEffect	guarantees women the right to vote nationwide ⓘ prohibits denying the right to vote on the basis of sex ⓘ
locationOfSigning	Washington, D.C. ⓘ
numberInSequence	19 ⓘ
partOf	United States Constitution ⓘ
precededBy	Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ
prohibitsDiscriminationBasis	sex ⓘ
ratifiedByRequiredNumberOfStates	36 ⓘ
ratifiedOn	1920-08-18 ⓘ
relatedTo	Equal Rights Amendment ⓘ Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⓘ
scope	nationwide ⓘ
sectionCount	2 ⓘ
shortName	Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Nineteenth Amendment
subject	gender equality ⓘ voting rights ⓘ women's suffrage ⓘ
textBegins	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. ⓘ
yearRatified	1920 ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → alsoKnownAs → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

this entity surface form: 19th Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → alsoKnownAs → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

this entity surface form: Women’s Suffrage Amendment

Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution → comparedWith → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

United States federal elections → expandedSuffrageBy → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → followedBy → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

United States constitutional amendments → includes → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

24th Amendment to the United States Constitution → relatedTo → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution → relatedTo → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution → shortName → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nineteenth Amendment

Progressive Era → significantEvent → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ

this entity surface form: 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution

National Woman's Party → supportedLegislation → Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ