19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote

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Joint Resolution of Congress proposing a constitutional amendment extending the right of suffrage to women, May 19, 1919; Ratified Amendments, 1795-1992; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=13&title.raw=19th+Amendment+to+the+U.S.+Constitution:+Women%27s+Right+to+Vote

Ninety four years, that's it! We have only been allowed to vote for ninety four years. Then...then we have the highest court in the land decide to make us into a non person.

SCOTUS Has Rewritten the 1st and 14th Amendments on the Back of a Napkin

The BURWELL v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC. Supreme Court decision has redefined the fundamental nature of our society. While the Supremes attempted to back-peddle the ruling, claiming its narrow application, the implications of the decision define a new relationship between the employer and employee, and creates a two tier interpretation of the protections under the Constitution. Regardless of the promises and caveats set in the majority decision, BURWELL v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC. will be used as a basis for further law suits and further Supreme Court decisions.

Here's just a few of the implications this ill-considered ruling has to offer:

Employers' religious belief trump the employees'. As an employer you may now assert your religious beliefs onto your employees even outside the workplace.

Employers may claw back into justly earned compensation of employees. An employees compensation is not limited to the salary they receive. It includes the benefits such as vacation time, and health care. No one would sit still for an employer that dictates how one may spend their salary. Yet, in essence, this decision allows Hobby Lobby to do just that. Hobby Lobby is now able to direct how health care may be used because the Supreme Court failed to recognize that, as part of the employee's compensation for their labor, the health care benefits belong to the employee, not the employer.

Other religions will use this to impose constraints on employees. Despite pronouncements by the Supremes to the contrary, this ruling opens the door for other religions to argue against providing portions of the health care benefits. Everyone gets to practice medicine without a license.

The relationship between the employer and the employee has been redefined. By allowing employers to reach into employees' private lives and control how their compensation is used, the Supreme Court has altered this relationship from a coequal partnership trading labor for wages to that of master and slave.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/01/1310977/-SCOTUS-Has-Rewritten-the-1st-and-14th-Amendments-on-the-Back-of-a-Napkin#

I can not express how sick this makes me. Thanks to the Supreme Court we may all be slaves now.

[Louisiana1976]

1. Exactly. The boss should stay out of the exam room. It should not be the boss' business

what birth control is used.

[Thinkingabout]

2. We get this from the conserative side who whines a the time about government over reach

But has put their nose directly in our business, in our doctors offices, in our choice we should make for ourselves, in our love lives and other things in which they feel they can meddle. I am very thankful to the hard work our ladies did in order for us to vote, I don't think I can allow this to be reversed. I keep waiting for the sharia type laws trying to curtail our abortion clinics and if this continues I am wondering if the burkas will be a requirement. I might not be beautiful to look at but I damn sure do not want to wear a burka.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. It is a pity International Law protecting women's rights cannot be utilized here