POLSCI 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Equal Rights Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
11 Jun 2018
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Equal Rights for Women
Early Movements:
● 15th amendment: “the rights 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 race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
● 19th amendment: “the rights 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”
○ Vote is important but also a means to other ends → things that were important for
women would be achieved thro suffrage
○ 1913 - Norway
○ 1918 - Britain
○ 1918 - Canada
○ 1919 - Germany
○ 1920 - U.S.
Modern Women’s Movement:
● Suffrage movement was not prominent/strong
● 1960s - other civil rights → voting rights act, civil rights act, march on washington
○ Before: conscious decision to separate women's rights from rights from black people
→ not the same thing during civil rights
● Equal rights amendment was not passed 1972
● Effects: 115th congress
○ More women serving in congress (growth)
○ Still men = majority
● Increase of women in congress is not a steady growth
● 25% of state legislators are women
○ Women are more likely to register to vote
● Women more represented in other positions - supreme court
● Record numbers of congress deciding not to run for re-election
Political Parties:
● Dominant way of thinking about things is thro political parties
● Look at debates → topics from each party, no overlap
○ Emphasize totally different thing
○ Dem: climate change, Wall St. Regulation, Drug Abuse, Inequality
○ Rep: China, Benghazi, Immigration, Military Spending, Radical Islam
● Within Party Divisions:
○ Anti-Trump
○ Establishment Republicans
What is a political party?:
● Definition: an ongoing coalition of people and interests joined together to try to get their
candidates elected under a common label
○ An ongoing coalition - don’t all agree with each other
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Document Summary
15th amendment: the rights 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 race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 19th amendment: the rights 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 . Vote is important but also a means to other ends things that were important for women would be achieved thro suffrage. 1960s - other civil rights voting rights act, civil rights act, march on washington. Before: conscious decision to separate women"s rights from rights from black people. Not the same thing during civil rights. Equal rights amendment was not passed 1972. Increase of women in congress is not a steady growth. Women are more likely to register to vote. Women more represented in other positions - supreme court.
