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22 mar 2014 · This Article questions the consensus view of Article V’s irrelevance. Ra-ther than having always been superfluous, I suggest a different possibility: Article V–induced rigidity may have played an important, if unacknowl-edged, role in promoting the Constitution’s survival at a key moment in American history—the early decades of the ...
1 gru 2019 · To promote critical reflection about the Nineteenth Amendment and its many complex legacies, the Journal of American History announces a new series, Sex, Suffrage, Solidarities: Centennial Reappraisals.
Legal scholars describe Article V of the U.S. Constitution, which sets forth rules for amending the document, as an uncommonly stringent and specific constitutional provision.
This Essay examines Article V’s procedures for amending the Constitution. It begins with an overview of the historical background of Article V. The Essay then examines relevant Supreme Court decisions, historical practices, and academic debates related to the methods that Article V establishes for proposing and ratifying constitutional ...
Woman suffrage challenged the legal principle of coverture, which subsumed a married woman’s political and economic identity into her husband’s; it also challenged dominant gender roles that confined women to the domestic sphere.
10 kwi 2019 · This article examines the federalism implications of state-initiated calls for an Article V convention. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows two-thirds of the states to call for a convention to consider one or more Constitutional amendments.
8 lip 2023 · The collection ambitiously provides thirteen essays, a foreword, an introduction and an afterword. The foreword and the conclusion contextualise the hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage within global and international histories of citizenship and democracy.
