Debate, and discuss, just dont Bore me.
Boggles the mind
Published on August 15, 2005 By Dr Guy In Current Events

Debra Ness, leader of a group called National Partnership for Women and Families recently made the following statement:

The right of women to vote, the right to privacy, all of these are rights that Americans hold dear, but some might argue are not rights that can be easily found in the Constitution.

Now I know I am just a lowly citizen, and perish the thought that perhaps this lowly cirizen might know as much as the exalted leader of a left wing advocacy group, but......

(Yes there is that Big But)

Can one of you Einsteins out there double check me on this, but isn't the 19th amendment the one that gave women the right to vote?  Was it written in Invisible ink?  Did the Vast Right WIng conspiracy go out and hide that amendment from prying eyes?

Apparently so if it is so hard to find.  It makes you wonder about the competancy of an organization that would hire someone that stupid as their leader.  WHat next?  Make someone like Howard Dean leader of the Democrat National Committee????

{oops - seems they did that too}


Comments
on Aug 15, 2005
Hmmm... maybe she's reading a copy printed pre-1918? Could it be that she's so used to finding things that AREN'T there, that she misses those that are?
on Aug 15, 2005

Hmmm... maybe she's reading a copy printed pre-1918? Could it be that she's so used to finding things that AREN'T there, that she misses those that are?

Yes to both parts.  Maybe she is looking at the original one, which of course would not have later amendments.

on Aug 15, 2005

Can one of you Einsteins out there double check me on this, but isn't the 19th amendment the one that gave women the right to vote?



Yep!


Amendment XIX (the Nineteenth Amendment) to the United States Constitution, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, was proposed to the states by the U.S. Congress on June 4, 1919, and became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920, upon its ratification by Tennessee, the thirty-sixth state to do so. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920. The amendment prohibits both the federal government and the states from using a person's sex as a qualification to vote; it was specifically intended to extend suffrage to women. The amendment reads:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

On February 27, 1922, a challenge to the 19th Amendment was rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
on Aug 15, 2005

Can one of you Einsteins out there double check me on this, but isn't the 19th amendment the one that gave women the right to vote?



Yep!

I knew we had some smart ones at JU!