19th Amendment

First lady voters depicted in Guthrie, OK, June 5, 1889. Women could vote in Guthrie from the beginning but lost the right when Oklahoma became a state. Oklahoma has a long history of being progressive. The second woman elected to US Congress was Alice Robertson from Muskogee. She served one term, 1921-23. Jeannette Rankin (of Montana) won election to Congress in 1916, four years before women even had the right to vote in all the states. The 19^th Amendment was ratified in 1920.

          There are purportedly a very large percentage of women voting for a woman in this election due to the fact that she is a woman, in order to cast a “historical” vote. Really… I would call it hysterical, certainly not historical. We aren’t voting for the president of the local bridge club ladies. Do you really think that is a wise choice of the right granted under the 19^th Amendment? How trite and superficial can one be?

          There are always arguments whether voting is a right, privilege, honor or otherwise. Text of the 19^th Amendment:

Amendment XIX. 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.