It was the culmination of a century of agitation for women ... Morrow of Kentucky signs his state's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, on January 6 ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

To celebrate and mark the 105th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... women’s ...

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It was to have been a celebration of a century of women voting ... when its members voted to ratify the 19th Amendment, just 20 days after Congress passed it. “You have done today the biggest ...

Once the amendment moved to the Senate ... because “there were no illegal aliens in 1868.” Although mid-19th century American immigration law was a veritable Wild West compared with today ...

Minnesota’s governors enjoyed power to pardon, or commute the sentence of anyone convicted of a crime in state courts.

and instead relied on nineteenth-century ones to uphold the New York law. Why those two eras in particular? When Congress and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, they effectively ...