Elizabeth Warren, for example, tweeted: "People always say that big change is impossible. That's what they told the suffragettes - but they got organized, persisted, & 100 years ago today, the Senate passed the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote." What Warren conveniently forgets is that the people who said it was "Impossible" were Democrats.
The reality is that most Democrats were against the 19th Amendment, including President Woodrow Wilson - who was so reviled by the suffragists that they routinely referred to him as "Kaiser Wilson." What really delayed Congress from passing the amendment was a forty-year legislative war in which the Democrats did their level best to keep women out of the voting booth.
In 1870, 50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, Utah passed a suffrage bill recognizing a woman's right to vote.
The Republicans continued to introduce the 19th Amendment in Congress every year, but the Democrats were able to keep it bottled up in various committees for another decade before allowing either chamber to vote on it.
This finally placed the GOP in a position to pass the 19th Amendment without the votes of the still intransigent Democratic opposition.
The Democratic resistance was by no means dead. They did their level best to prevent the amendment from being ratified but failed: "When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic."
Anyone inclined to support the party that passed the 19th Amendment should vote Republican.
https://spectator.org/dems-revise-history-regarding-the-19th-amendment/
The reality is that most Democrats were against the 19th Amendment, including President Woodrow Wilson - who was so reviled by the suffragists that they routinely referred to him as "Kaiser Wilson." What really delayed Congress from passing the amendment was a forty-year legislative war in which the Democrats did their level best to keep women out of the voting booth.
In 1870, 50 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified, Utah passed a suffrage bill recognizing a woman's right to vote.
The Republicans continued to introduce the 19th Amendment in Congress every year, but the Democrats were able to keep it bottled up in various committees for another decade before allowing either chamber to vote on it.
This finally placed the GOP in a position to pass the 19th Amendment without the votes of the still intransigent Democratic opposition.
The Democratic resistance was by no means dead. They did their level best to prevent the amendment from being ratified but failed: "When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic."
Anyone inclined to support the party that passed the 19th Amendment should vote Republican.
https://spectator.org/dems-revise-history-regarding-the-19th-amendment/
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