The 19th Amendment at 100: Lessons for Democracy

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

2020 marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting rights. And yet, the amendment did not "guarantee" voting rights to women and left many women to battle on for democratic inclusion. Panelists will discuss the lessons for democracy from the movement for woman suffrage, including the constitutional and political understandings of claims to citizenship, rights, and national belonging that the movement and the amendment engendered.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Cosponsor

• Division 26: Law and Courts

Chair

• Rogers M. Smith University of Pennsylvania

Presenters

• Corrine M. McConnaughy Princeton University

• Gretchen Ritter Ohio State University

• Nadia E. Brown Georgetown University

• Daniel P. Carpenter Harvard University

• Virginia Sapiro Boston University/Univ of Wisconsin - Madison

• Lynda G. Dodd Princeton University

• Lee Ann Banaszak Pennsylvania State University