    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 119th Congress]
    [119th Congress]
    [House Document 118-187]
    [The United States Constitution]
    [Pages 113-114]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                          AMENDMENT XIX.\10\

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    1919; Alabama, January 15, 1919; Colorado, January 15, 1919; Iowa, January 15,
    1919; New Hampshire, January 15, 1919; Oregon, January 15, 1919;
    Nebraska, January 16, 1919; North Carolina, January 16, 1919; Utah,
    January 16, 1919; Missouri, January 16, 1919; Wyoming, January 16, 1919.
    Ratification was completed on January 16, 1919. The amendment was
    subsequently ratified by Minnesota, January 17, 1919; Wisconsin, January
    17, 1919; New Mexico, January 20, 1919; Nevada, January 21, 1919; New
    York, January 29, 1919; Vermont, January 29, 1919; Pennsylvania,
    February 25, 1919; Connecticut, May 6, 1919; New Jersey, March 9, 1922.
    Connecticut and Rhode Island rejected the amendment.

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    Sec. 240. Womens suffrage.

      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.

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      \10\ The 19th amendment to the Constitution of the United
    States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the
    66th Congress on June 5, 1919, and was declared in a proclamation by the
    Secretary of State dated August 26, 1920, to have been ratified by the
    legislatures

      Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
    legislation.