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AMENDMENT XIX Passed by Congress June 4, 1919. Ratified August 18, 1920.

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 the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

What was the effect of the passage of this amendment? Write an essay summarizing how this amendment expanded voting rights in the United States.

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MrZieleniewo

The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.  The text of the  19th Amendment to the Constitution reads as follows: "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."

The proposal to add such an amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878, but Congress did not pass the amendment till 1919 -- after the experience of women taking on greater roles in the country during the First World War.  The amendment achieved ratification by a sufficient number of states and was added to the Constitution by August, 1920.

The passage of the 19th Amendment essentially doubled the number of eligible voters in the United States, since prior to its passage, only male citizens could vote.  

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  The age limit of voting is a significant part of voting, but like all rights and laws, they have a limit. This limit has changed over time and has expanded voting rights tremendously.

   At first, the voting age was 21 years old, and only men could vote, but that changed when women were able to vote but the age stayed the same. Then, the amendment change to where you could vote even if you were of a different race, but the age stayed the same.

   Eventually, on June 22, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Voting Rights Acts that required the voting age to be 18 in all elections. This expanded voting rights so much, the age had been lowered by 3 years for all Americans for all elections.

   Expanding voting rights this much, allowed people from younger ages to be able to vote on who and what they thought would be best. 

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