26/08/2024
Today marks the 106th year, that women in the USA became eligible to vote. It took an act of Congress, an amendment to the Constitution and decades of campaigning. It was Wyoming, which became a state in 1890, which set the ball rolling. By 1918, 15 states had accepted that women could vote.
In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment Amendment was signed. The full text reads : "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 s*x. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation".
Strangely, in today's modern world, women may not be women; men can be women and some people can be both men and women.