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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...
20 vintage photos of suffragettes that will make you want to get out and vote
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSuffragettes parade through New York City.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images The 19th Amendment...
Why the 18th Amendment on Prohibition was approved and later repealed | Opinion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...
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...
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...
Trump disses 14th Amendment talk as 'another trick' but efforts to disqualify him continue
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFormer President Donald Trump this week derided talk of invoking the U.S. Constitution's 14th...
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...
Western suffragettes: How Colorado, Wyoming women won voting rights decades ahead of nation
The Coloradoan via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI can’t remember where I first heard it, but for years I believed a fairytale. You see, Women in the...
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...