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Woman's Political Standings In The 1920s

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Woman's Political standings in 1920's were in electoral politics, Jury service, and coverture. From Ritter's reading, he provides factual evidence, references, and historical features that help us understand the history behind the Nineteenth amendment. Woman were not considered citizens before they received the nineteenth amendment. Woman would never had the right to vote until the history and establishment of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and nineteenth amendment. First, the fourteenth amendment had been the first broadest amendment for privileged national citizenship. ”Citizenship is first given clear constitutional definition by the fourteenth amendment, which defined citizenship, recognized its dual national and state character and privileged national citizenship over state citizenship.” (Ritter, pg. 352) Bradwell v. Illinois, had been a case that ruled woman cannot vote under the fourteenth amendment. Though, it is shown under the fourteenth amendment that any citizen can have voting rights woman still couldn’t vote. In this case it affirmed that woman were not considered citizens. Which goes back to the claim from Ritter’s question that woman were not citizens before they had the right to vote. …show more content…

In fact, woman Political activist had been irritated to think that black men would get rights as a citizen before them. Woman at this time were not considered citizens. “Fifteenth amendment, which was also designed to address citizenship generally and the position of former slaves more particularly, specified that states could not discriminate in providing the right to vote on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.”(Ritter, Pg. 352) After this amendment woman had fought more for their right to have political standings. Ritter had shown that claims that woman were not citizens before or during this

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