29 mars 1875 - Minor v. Happersett

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A Supreme Court case in which it was ruled that the Constitution did not grant anyone the right to vote. The case arose because of Virginia Minor, a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, who attempted to vote in Missouri. The state had passed a law preventing women from voting, so Minor sued the voting registrar, Reese Happersett. Minor argued that the 14th Amendment granted her the "privileges and immunities of citizenship," of which suffrage was one. However, the Court ruled in a 9-0 decision that while the 14th Amendment did make Minor a citizen, suffrage was not an inherent right of US citizens. Therefore, the Constitution did not grant anyone citizenship. This decision killed a large part of women's rights movements, as the only way to counter the decision would be a repealing of said decision by the Court or a constitutional amendment by Congress. The latter would later occur in 1920, where the newly passed 19th Amendment would prevent sex as a limiting factor for suffrage.

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