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In 1875, the Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett said that while women may be citizens, all citizens were not necessarily voters, and states were not required to allow women to vote.
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The 19th Amendment affirming women%u2019s right to vote steamrolled out of Congress in 1919, getting more than half the ratifications it needed in the first year.
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Secretary of State in Washington, DC issued the 19th Amendment%u2019s proclamation immediately, before breakfast on August 26, 1920, in order to head off any final obstructionism.
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ERA was created by Alice Paul, preposed that there would be 100% equality between women and men, without having women be able to be drafted into the army.
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In 1923, in Seneca Falls for the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Woman%u2019s Rights Convention, she introduced the "Lucretia Mott Amendment,"Proposed "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
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The amendment was introduced in every session of Congress until it passed in reworded form in 1972, before that it had been discussed since 1923
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The bill has still not been passed. # 110th Congress (2007-2008), it has been introduced as S.J.Res. 10 (lead sponsor: Sen. Edward Kennedy, MA) and H.J.Res. 40 (lead sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney, NY). These bills impose no deadline on the ERA ratification process. Success in putting the ERA into the Constitution via this process would require passage by a two-thirds in each house of Congress and ratification by 38 states.