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'Why can't Mother vote?' Two Tennesseans vital to passage of 19th Amendment | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn Aug. 18, 1920, the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to ratify the 19th Amendment. Since...
How Tennessee became the pivotal state to ratify women's suffrage | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEditor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics written by...
On This Day, Feb. 3: 15th Amendment ratified
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn 1870 print celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
Why the 18th Amendment on Prohibition was approved and later repealed | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEditor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics written by...
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Here's when it was ratified.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWomen are more likely to vote than men, according to data from the Center for American Women and...
6 times US presidents were temporarily removed from office with the 25th Amendment
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPresident Donald Trump could temporarily or permanently hand power over to Vice President Mike Pence...
On This Day, Jan. 16: 18th Amendment -- prohibition of alcohol -- ratified
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNew York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (R) watches agents pour liquor into sewer...
Who was the first congresswoman? How Montana Rep. Rankin made history.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWomen won the right to vote in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was ratified, but three years before...
Explaining the amendments to the Louisiana Constitution on the October 14 ballot
Shreveport Times | The Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLouisiana's Constitution should have been written in pencil rather than ink. Since it was ratified...
The Forgotten History of the Child Labor Amendment
Time via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoA young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the...