Nineteenth Amendment

The Nineteenth Amendment may refer to the:

  • Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - guaranteed women the right to vote.
  • Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which introduced changes to Articles 2 and 3 of the constitution required by the Good Friday Agreement.

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth and/or amendment:

    “The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

    “The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1934)