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H. J. Res. 1.

Sixty-Sixth Congress of the United States of America;
At the First Session.

Begun and held at the City of Waashington on Monday, the nineteenth day of May,
one 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 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 puposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by
the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States.

"ARTICLE -----.

"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. GILLETTT.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOS. R. MARSHALL.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.