Total run time:
27m
Amendments to the Constitution are almost as old as the Constitution itself. Learn more about the original “Amendments” (which we now call the Bill of Rights) as well as crucial later amendments that altered and extended the Constitution in new ways.
One hundred years ago today, women gained the right to vote via the Nineteenth Amendment. Why didn’t the Constitution grant women suffrage? And how did the suffragists obtain the right to vote? Heather Higgins, Chairman of the Independent Women’s
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One hundred years ago today, women gained the right to vote via the Nineteenth Amendment. Why didn’t the Constitution grant women suffrage? And how did the suffragists obtain the right to vote? Heather Higgins, Chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum and CEO of Independent Women’s Voice, explores the history of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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As always, the Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal or public policy issues. All opinions expressed are those of the speaker.
Learn more about Heather Higgins:
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
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Producer: Ann Hartley
Written By: Heather Higgins
Associate Producer: Samantha Schroeder
Editor: Aaron Bacus
Art Director: Samantha Schroeder
Post-production Supervisor: Matt Wood
Executive Producers: Daniel T. Richards & Matt Wood
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Related Links & Differing Views:
Women’s Vote Centennial: “The Suff Buffs”
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
Harvard Law Review: “She the People: The Nineteenth Amendment, Sex Equality, Federalism, and the Family”
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
Georgetown Law Journal: “Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Nineteenth Amendment’s Right to Vote and Congress’s Power to Enforce It”
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
Humanities: “Winning the Vote”
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
National Constitution Center: “SCHOLAR EXCHANGE: Voting Rights in America”
https://www.iwf.org/people/heather-higgins/
Total run time:
27m
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Total videos:
8
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First Year
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