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Constitution: Women - The Right to Vote



A recent example of a change to the Constitution has to do with a woman’s right to vote. Women were not allowed to vote when the Constitution was adopted. Times had changed by 1920, and women gained the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The Constitution is flexible enough to adapt.

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