{"id":4731,"date":"2021-06-02T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2021-06-02T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T15:06:06","slug":"thomas-on-reclaiming-the-long-history-of-the-irrelevant-nineteenth-amendment-for-gender-equality-akronlaw-minnesotalawrev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/thomas-on-reclaiming-the-long-history-of-the-irrelevant-nineteenth-amendment-for-gender-equality-akronlaw-minnesotalawrev\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas on Reclaiming the Long History of the “Irrelevant” Nineteenth Amendment for Gender Equality @AkronLaw @MinnesotaLawRev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracy A. Thomas, University of Akron School of Law, has published Reclaiming the Long History of the \u201cIrrelevant\u201d Nineteenth Amendment for Gender Equality<\/a> at 105 Minnesota Law Review 101 (2021). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n

The Nineteenth Amendment has been called an \u201cirrelevant\u201d amendment. The women\u2019s suffrage amendment has been deemed insignificant as a constitutional authority, reduced to a historical footnote. In the Supreme Court canon, it has been diminished as a text that \u201cmerely gives the vote to women.\u201d With the accomplishment of that simple task, the amendment has been assumed to offer little guidance to modern constitutional analysis or gender equality. The Nineteenth Amendment has become a \u201cconstitutional orphan,\u201d disconnected from its historical origins and precedential place in constitutional jurisprudence.<\/p>\n

This constricting view of the Nineteenth Amendment ignores the structural implications and significant history of this gendered amendment and women\u2019s seventy-two-year fight for equal citizenship. Historical and legal narratives fail to capture a full understanding of the factual, legal, and normative steps and effects of the amendment. This article seeks to correct that conventional narrative by offering a more inclusive, yet concise, overview of the Nineteenth Amendment. The history demonstrates women\u2019s longstanding demands for equal rights, the complexity of those demands, and the depths and racial tones of the opposition. The article then argues that this constitutional history is relevant to interpreting constitutional guarantees of gender equality today. Using historical justifications, it joins other legal scholars in arguing for a more robust reading and constitutional meaning of the Nineteenth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Download the article from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n

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