Sex / Gender

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Sex / Gender

Annotation

The key reference to gender comes in the Nineteenth Amendment, which guarantees that the right to vote not be restricted on account of sex. The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed to extend such protections beyond the vote, but it was not ratified by a sufficient number of states

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Amendment 14, Section 2

Amendment 19, Cluase 1

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Amendment 14, Section 2

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

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Amendment 19, Clause 1

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.

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