11 apr 1875 anni - Women are preventing from voting

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The Legal Case of Minor v. Happersett

The U.S. Supreme Court declares that despite the privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from voting.

The court declares women as “persons,” but holds that they constitute a “special category of nonvoting citizens.”

Virginia Minor, a suffragist leader in Missouri, tried to register to vote and was denied because she was a woman. She argued that the Constitution, and specifically the 14th Amendment, allowed for all citizens (women included) to vote.

The Supreme Court ruled that voting was not an inherent right to citizenship. The court also said that only allowing men to vote was not an infringement of the 14th Amendment.

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