The history and meaning of the 19th Amendment

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🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Gretchen Ritter of Cornell University and Susan Ware explore the history of women's rights and the fight to extend voting rights to all women. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People and Live at America’s Town Hall on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen. Many thanks and best wishes to Josh Waimberg, who leaves the Center this month.

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0:50.4	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
1:00.0	And today we explore the history and meaning of the 19th Amendment,
1:03.5	which says, and I'm quoting here from my National Constitution
1:06.6	Center Pocket Constitution,
1:08.5	the right of citizens of the United States to vote
1:11.5	shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any
1:15.4	state on account of sex and I should say that on Constitution Day we're going to
1:19.7	launch our free National Constitution Center app so that you can access the National
1:24.5	Constitution's interactive Constitution directly on your mobile devices and
1:28.7	read it there. As written in 1787 the US Constitution left the scope of voting rights
1:35.4	undefined. The issue of voting qualifications was delegated to the states, which did not
1:40.5	allow women to vote. But after the Civil War, leaders in the Movement for Women's Rights
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