Constitution - 19th Amendment: Majority of Tea Partiers Women

From: Newsmax.com Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:46 PM

Subject: Democrats Gird for Obamacare Backlash; Majority of Tea Partiers Women

Poll: Women Make Up Majority of Tea Party Ranks

Monday, March 29, 2010 By: David A. Patten http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/tea-party-women-poll/2010/03/29/id/354129

Those who say the tea party movement consists mostly of angry white men will have to recast their stereotyping in at least one regard - 55 percent of them are women, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.

The survey included nearly 2,000 registered voters nationwide. About 13 percent said they are members of the tea party movement that has pushed for more than a year for lower taxes, more liberty, and smaller government. Of those self-identified tea party activists, about 55 per cent are women.

The finding won't come as a huge surprise to those who have followed the tea party movement.

Women such as Jenny Beth Martin, Amy Kremer, and Darla Dawald hold leading roles in the movement. Sarah Palin and Mississippi congressional candidate Angela McGlowan are among the movement's political icons. And several women-oriented groups, such as the grass-roots networking site SmartGirlPolitics, have emerged to give women a place to voice their opinions and coordinate events.

Dawald, national director of the ResistNet site, explained the activism of women conservatives to Politico.com: "You know the old saying that if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy? Well, when legislation messes with mama's kids and it affects her family, then mama comes out fighting."

Given allegation of threats and vandalism lately, she was careful to add, "And I don't mean in a violent way, of course."

In addition to being mostly female, tea party activists share a strong distrust of government.

The poll released late last week indicated that only 19 percent of American voters generally trust government to do the right thing "almost all of the time" or "most of the time." But among tea party activists, that figure drops to only 4 percent.

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19th Amendment of the US Constitution - Women's Right To Vote

Amendment XIX
Section 1. The right of the 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.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The 19th Amendment was first introduced in Congress in January of 1878.

The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.

It took 52 years for the 19th Amendment to be ratified.

36 states ratified the 19th Amendment to official make it part of our Constitution.

According to Ron Brown of WGEM News, the first woman to vote after the 19th Amendment was ratified was Mrs. Marie Ruoff Byrum of Missouri.

reference: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/Constitution/amendment19/

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