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19th Amendment
Text of 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 1
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State
of New Jersey
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| CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. |
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IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of New Jersey, the
General Assembly of the State of New Jersey concurring: |
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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: |
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ARTICLE
XIX |
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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. |
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shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. |
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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]
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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 1
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| SENATE, |
| February
2, 1920 |
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bill having been three times read in the Senate, |
| RESOLVED,
That the same do pass. |
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order of the Senate. |
| Clarence
E. Case, President of the Senate |
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| 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. |
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order of the House of Assembly. |
| W.
Irving Glover, Speaker of the House of Assembly [pg. 2] |
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RELATED MATERIALS
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Correspondence taken from the following collections:
Governor Walter Evans Edge, Correspondence, 1917-1919.
Governor Edward I. Edwards, Correspondence, 1920-1922.
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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.
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"Letter from a Real Man to a Politician," 8 January 1920, is against a woman's right to vote. |
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Letter from H. G. Chase to Governor Edwards, 11 February 1920, against women's suffrage. The author believes it should be a state issue. |
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Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to Governor Edwards, 13 February 1920.
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Letter from Alice Paul, National Chairman to the National Women's Party, to Governor Edwards, 14 February 1920.
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Letter from Allison Hopkins, New Jersey Chairman of the National Woman's Party, to Governor Edwards, 10 March 1920 |
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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.
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