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gov135 · 06-04-2003, 06:44 AM

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...nthkobach.html

I remembered learning about how hard the amendment was to pass in Congress itself. The passage posted doesn't cover this, and I thought I'd find something that did. The above link describes the process quite well. I went looking for it cause I wanted to make a point about how much resistance women met along the way. Today, we kinda say, ho-hum then the passed the nineteenth. But the passage was a display of democracy at its best and worst.

Here is a quote form the link:
On January 10, 1918, the House of Representatives proposed a federal constitutional amendment with the required two-thirds majority. However, the resistance of Southern Democrats in the Senate delayed a vote in the second chamber until October 1, when the amendment failed by two votes. After falling short again on February 10, 1919, the suffrage amendment was finally approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919.

Takes alot of opposition to stall a social movement, yet there were many in Congress who did not approve of the women's rights movement. Makes you wonder, huh?

06-04-2003, 06:44 AM	#3 (permalink)
gov135 Junkie Location: Midwest	http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...nthkobach.html I remembered learning about how hard the amendment was to pass in Congress itself. The passage posted doesn't cover this, and I thought I'd find something that did. The above link describes the process quite well. I went looking for it cause I wanted to make a point about how much resistance women met along the way. Today, we kinda say, ho-hum then the passed the nineteenth. But the passage was a display of democracy at its best and worst. Here is a quote form the link: On January 10, 1918, the House of Representatives proposed a federal constitutional amendment with the required two-thirds majority. However, the resistance of Southern Democrats in the Senate delayed a vote in the second chamber until October 1, when the amendment failed by two votes. After falling short again on February 10, 1919, the suffrage amendment was finally approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919. Takes alot of opposition to stall a social movement, yet there were many in Congress who did not approve of the women's rights movement. Makes you wonder, huh?