Talk:Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution/to do


 * I BELIEVE THERE MAYBE AN ERROR IN THIS PAGE: My understanding is that the 19th Amendment was drafted by Senator Aaron Augustus Sargent who was the first U.S. Senator to introduce this resolution in the Senate that I am told became the 19th amendment.  Senator Sargent was a close friend of Susan B. Anthony.  There are numerous personal letters between the two in the Searls Library in Nevada City, California.  Ms. Anthony may have had input, but it was Senator Sargent who introduced it.  I checked this with the Library of Congress and understand this information to be true.  You might consider following up with the Library of Congress to verify same.  (Bill Sargent:  Great grandson of Senator Sargent)Sargesdotcom (talk) 04:51, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Expand and source the section on Leser v. Garnett.</
 * Implementation. Obviously it wasn't completely smooth, because there was a Supreme Court challenge in 1922, but what other issues were there?
 * Background. Brief summary of the women's suffrage movement prior to the introduction of the amendment.
 * Amendment process. What arguments were made for/against it? What parties/faction supported/opposed it? Section added in talk pages on Constitutional Amendment proposals prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment by User:EDinschel.
 * Effects. Obviously it required states to allow women to vote, but what have been the lasting effects?
 * Would someone please add: "Carrie Chapman Catt was instrumental to the final push to gain ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1900 she succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association).  Starting in 1915 Catt revitalized the NAWSA and led a successful campaign in New York state to achieve state-level suffrage in 1917.  During World War I, Catt made the controversial decision to support the war effort, despite the widespread pacifist sentiment of many of her colleagues and supporters.  Catt's organizational skills and energy were crucial to bring the vote before the House of Representatives in 1918."  Endnote: Sara M. Evans.  Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America.  New York: The Free Press, 1989, pp. 164-172.  Also, link Catt's name to her wiki entry.  (Suggested on 7.13.13 by Frank Poletti. Oakland, CA)
 * This section is in error: " Catt was successful in turning NAWSA into a patriotic organization, entirely separate from the NWP, and was rewarded when President Wilson spoke out in favor of women's suffrage in his 1918 State of the Union address before Congress.[21]". The decision to introduce the amendment was a direct response to the efforts of the NWP, and not a reward of Catt's patriotic efforts. While Alice Paul was imprisoned in the Occoquan Workhouse, David Lawrence was sent to offer her a deal. Lawrence asked Paul whether the NWP would be satisfied to have the amendment go through one house of Congress in the coming session, and to go through the other house in the following session, but Paul told him that the NWP would not be satisfied. Then Lawrence said that the President would make known his support of the Amendment and advise Congressional leaders that he wanted it passed, but that he would have to do so in a way that did not appear to reward the NWP's tactics or honor their requests to be treated as political prisoners. A few days after this meeting, the suffragists were suddenly and arbitrarily released from imprisonment. The story was published in several well-known newspapers. On January 9, 1918, as promised to Paul while imprisoned, President Wilson declared his support for the Amendment. The link between the NWP's efforts and the President's support was so obvious and well-known that even the General Secretary of the National Association Opposed to Women's Suffrage acknowledged the offer and resulting support occurred. So, the later part of the sentence quoted above misconstrues the events. It should be eliminated and language added to acknowledge that it was the NWP's efforts that resulted in forcing President Wilson's public support of the Amendment. I suggest the last part of the sentence, after "NWP" be eliminated and the following sentence added: "While Catt's efforts were important in the final stages of the push for suffrage, the public pressure resulting from the NWP's efforts ultimately caused President Wilson to publicly support the Amendment." Endnote: Inez Haynes Irwin. The Story of the Woman's Party. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, pp. 254-256. (Suggested by E.M. Kokie, 3-15-17)