| 1 | | - | Enrolled June 05, 2019 Passed IN Senate June 03, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 43Introduced by Senator Leyva(Coauthors: Senators Atkins, Bates, Caballero, Chang, Durazo, Galgiani, Grove, Hurtado, Jackson, Mitchell, Rubio, and Skinner)May 20, 2019 Relative to the Nineteenth Amendment.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 43, Leyva. Digest KeyBill TextWHEREAS, The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that the rights 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, guarantees women the right to vote, a right known as womens suffrage; andWHEREAS, The Nineteenth Amendment took almost a century of activism, campaigning, and protests to be adopted. In July 1848, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first womens rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to advocate an amendment to the United States Constitution that would grant women the right to vote. The American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same year to pursue a state-by-state strategy to pass such an amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1890, these two organizations were united to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association; and WHEREAS, The wording of the Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in the United States Senate in January 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent from California. Senator Sargent was an outspoken womens suffrage advocate. He testified before the United States Senate in support of the amendment alongside female activists. However, the proposal was rejected by the United States Senate in a 16 to 34 vote in 1887; andWHEREAS, In 1916, Alice Paul, Chair of the Washington, D.C. Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, created the National Womens Party (NWP), a political party advocating for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. NWP members were the first women in history to picket the White House in 1917; and WHEREAS, In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson recognized the increased role of women in American society, especially during the involvement of the United States in World War I by supporting womens suffrage in his address to the United States Senate. As reported in The New York Times on October 1, 1918, President Wilson said, I regard the extension of suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged. However, despite President Wilsons support, the United States Senate did not pass the amendment at that time; andWHEREAS, On May 21, 1919, The United States House of Representatives passed a resolution to approve the Nineteenth Amendment by a vote of 304 to 89 a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate passed the amendment by two votes over the required two-thirds vote threshold. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification; and WHEREAS, Although some state legislatures opposed womens suffrage, the California Legislature was not one of them. On November 1, 1919, then-Governor William D. Stephens called a special session of the Legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, and the California Legislature passed the amendment on the same day; andWHEREAS, On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by 36 states, receiving ratification by three-fourths of the states necessary to make it the law of the land. Today, all 50 states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment; andWHEREAS, Although the United States granted women the right to vote in 1920, in California, women had already won the right to vote in 1911, nearly a decade earlier, making California one of the first six states in the nation to approve womens suffrage; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate hereby recognizes June 4, 2019, as the 100th Anniversary of Congress Passing the Nineteenth Amendment and encourages all Californians to join in this observance; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy of the resolution to the Governor. |
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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Resolution No. 43Introduced by Senator Leyva(Coauthors: Senators Atkins, Bates, Caballero, Chang, Durazo, Galgiani, Grove, Hurtado, Jackson, Mitchell, Rubio, and Skinner)May 20, 2019 Relative to the Nineteenth Amendment.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSR 43, as introduced, Leyva. Digest KeyBill TextWHEREAS, The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states that the rights 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, guarantees women the right to vote, a right known as womens suffrage; andWHEREAS, The Nineteenth Amendment took almost a century of activism, campaigning, and protests to be adopted. In July 1848, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first womens rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to advocate an amendment to the United States Constitution that would grant women the right to vote. The American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same year to pursue a state-by-state strategy to pass such an amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1890, these two organizations were united to create the National American Woman Suffrage Association; and WHEREAS, The wording of the Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in the United States Senate in January 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent from California. Senator Sargent was an outspoken womens suffrage advocate. He testified before the United States Senate in support of the amendment alongside female activists. However, the proposal was rejected by the United States Senate in a 16 to 34 vote in 1887; andWHEREAS, In 1916, Alice Paul, Chair of the Washington, D.C. Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, created the National Womens Party (NWP), a political party advocating for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. NWP members were the first women in history to picket the White House in 1917; and WHEREAS, In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson recognized the increased role of women in American society, especially during the involvement of the United States in World War I by supporting womens suffrage in his address to the United States Senate. As reported in The New York Times on October 1, 1918, President Wilson said, I regard the extension of suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged. However, despite President Wilsons support, the United States Senate did not pass the amendment at that time; andWHEREAS, On May 21, 1919, The United States House of Representatives passed a resolution to approve the Nineteenth Amendment by a vote of 304 to 89 a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate passed the amendment by two votes over the required two-thirds vote threshold. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification; and WHEREAS, Although some state legislatures opposed womens suffrage, the California Legislature was not one of them. On November 1, 1919, then-Governor William D. Stephens called a special session of the Legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment, and the California Legislature passed the amendment on the same day; andWHEREAS, On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified by 36 states, receiving ratification by three-fourths of the states necessary to make it the law of the land. Today, all 50 states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment; andWHEREAS, Although the United States granted women the right to vote in 1920, in California, women had already won the right to vote in 1911, nearly a decade earlier, making California one of the first six states in the nation to approve womens suffrage; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, That the Senate hereby recognizes June 4, 2019, as the 100th Anniversary of Congress Passing the Nineteenth Amendment and encourages all Californians to join in this observance; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate prepare and transmit a copy of the resolution to the Governor. |
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