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:

    “Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”
    —Leon Edel (b. 1907)

    “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)