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From: karen@randvax.UUCP (Karen Isaacson)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: 19th amendment ratification
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 12:08:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 12:08:27 1985
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> > Women were given the right to vote in the 20's because it was felt their
> > "cooperative and nurturing" forced would help politics. It's first real
> > demonstration was when the "Women's Christian Temperance Union" managed
> > to push through prohibition. This merely nurtured the mafia and set up
> > decades of fucked-up attitudes and policies concerning alcohol.
> > Charles Forsythe

Wait just a minute.  The Liquor Prohibition Amendment was the 18th,
was proclaimed as ratified by the U.S. Secretary of State on January 29,
1919, and went into effect on January 16, 1920.

The 19th amendment was porclaimed & went into effect on August 26, 1920.
I hadn't realized that it was retroactive before that date...

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