Frankly, I think we need to reconsider the 19th Amendment.
The first big thing women did with the vote was impose
national prohibition.
The next was and continues to be to militate vigorously for
the right of women everywhere to kill their unwanted children.
The seven year riders, by the way, on some proposed and some ratified constitutional
amendments are themselves unconstitutional (see Article 5 of the US
Constitution, which alone controls the process of amendment).
But they are firmly in
the tradition of the US Constitution itself which, in its last article and
before its own adoption, proposed its own unconstitutional method of ratification
(see Article 13 of the Articles of Confederation, then in force).
Update, 04082014, 2000 hrs, EDT.
OK, I'm kidding.
Maybe.
Learned folks have offered insightful essays giving valid reasons for repealing the 19th Amendment.
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