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19th Amendment

Text of 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1

State of New Jersey

 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of New Jersey, the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey concurring:
1. The amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed at the sixty-sixth Congress by resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, to the several State Legislatures, be and the same is hereby, upon the part of this Legislature, ratified and made a part of the Constitution of the United States, said amendment having been approved, and is in the following words, to wit:
ARTICLE XIX
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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
2. That certified copies of the foregoing concurrent resolution be forwarded by the Governor of the State of New Jersey to the President of the United States, the Secretary of State of the United States, the President of the Senate of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States. [pg. 1]

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 1
SENATE,
February 2, 1920
This bill having been three times read in the Senate,
RESOLVED, That the same do pass.
By order of the Senate.
Clarence E. Case, President of the Senate  
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY,
February 9, 1920
This bill having been three times read and compared in the House of Assembly,
RESOLVED, That the same do pass.
By order of the House of Assembly.
W. Irving Glover, Speaker of the House of Assembly   [pg. 2]


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RELATED MATERIALS

Correspondence taken from the following collections:
Governor Walter Evans Edge, Correspondence, 1917-1919.
Governor Edward I. Edwards, Correspondence, 1920-1922.

 

Letter to Senator Edge   Letter to Senator Edge  
Letter from Acting New Jersey Governor William N. Runyon to Senator Edge (Governor of New Jersey), 15 January 1919, explaining why women should get the right to vote.

  "Letter from a Real Man to a Politician," 8 January 1920, is against a woman's right to vote.   Letter from H. G. Chase to Governor Edwards, 11 February 1920, against women's suffrage. The author believes it should be a state issue.
Letter to Senator Edge   Letter to Senator Edge  
Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to Governor Edwards, 13 February 1920.

  Letter from Alice Paul, National Chairman to the National Women's Party, to Governor Edwards, 14 February 1920.

  Letter from Allison Hopkins, New Jersey Chairman of the National Woman's Party, to Governor Edwards, 10 March 1920
Letter to Senator Edge        
Telegram from Governor Edwards to Carrie Hoffman, President of Kansas League of Women Voters, 1920, stating that women's suffrage was one of the governor's platform promises.