Daily Archives for 27 February 2014


February 27: Leser v. Garnett and the Women’s Vote

On 27 February 1922, the Supreme Court members declared the 19th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional. The amendment was seven decades in the making and took a lot of work to accomplish. The deciding court case was Leser v. Garnett, which rejected the argument that the Constitution of Maryland limited righting votes to only men […]