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Women’s Right To Vote

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution says that no one can be denied the right to vote because of their sex. This was set in place on August 18,1920. Many tries were made to change this amendment because people still didn’t want women to vote. The Leser v. Garnett case came before the Supreme Court to try again to take away women’s right to vote. It had 3 points:

  • The power to change the Constitution did not cover this amendment because it was about giving women the right to vote.
  • Several states that had ratified this amendment had constitutions that did not allow women to vote, so their ratifications did not count.
  • The ratifications of Tennessee and West Virginia did not count because they had not followed the rules for ratification.

    • On February 27, 1922, the Supreme Court made their final decision on the Leser v. Garnett case. It answered each point:

  • Because the 15th Amendment said that a person of any ethnicity could vote, an amendment dealing with a person’s sex had to be allowed.
  • When states ratified an amendment, it had to count.
  • The Supreme Court said that because the Secretary of State had accepted the ratifications of Tennessee and West Virginia as real, then they were real.

    • The Supreme Court firmly supported the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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