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On This Day, Aug. 18: 19th Amendment ratified giving women the vote
United Press International via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA member of the League of Women Voters participates in a demonstration to protest the lack of voting...
Wisconsin ratified federal Equal Rights Amendment 50 years ago yet still struggles to pass a state...
The Post-Crescent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAPPLETON — Women’s rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers gathered in Appleton earlier this month...
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...
'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...
Metro Charter amendments: These are the biggest changes proposed on the Aug. 4 ballot
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDavidson County's Aug. 4 general election ballot is the longest in the county's history, in part...
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...
Remind me why the Biden administration is in court fighting publication of the ERA?
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Biden administration is in court opposing the Equal Rights Amendment's publication by the...
What do you really know about the Second Amendment? Here's what it does and why it exists
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoEditor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education...
Why the 18th Amendment on Prohibition was approved and later repealed | Opinion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...
Women's rights group faults AG Peter Neronha for seeking to dismiss ERA lawsuit in RI
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPROVIDENCE — The state attorney general’s office is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit...