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H.J. Res. 1.

SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF TTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AT THE FIRST SESSION,

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the
Nineteenth day of May, on thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending the
right of suffrage to women.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each
House concurring therein), that the following article is proposed
as an amendment to the Constitution, which shall be valid to all
intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when
ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

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"The right 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.

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

F. H. Gillett
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Thos. R. Marshall.
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate