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19th Amendment

Women's Suffrage

Ratified August 18, 1920

In Plain English

Guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied "on account of sex" — the culmination of over seventy years of the women's suffrage movement, from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention onward.

Full Text

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.

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