{"id":1738938,"date":"2022-11-15T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738938"},"modified":"2022-11-15T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T12:02:36","slug":"do-the-leftist-women-rallying-against-this-legal-theory-realize-it-gave-them-the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/do-the-leftist-women-rallying-against-this-legal-theory-realize-it-gave-them-the-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Do The Leftist Women Rallying Against This Legal Theory Realize It Gave Them The Right To Vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdo-the-leftist-women-rallying-against-this-legal-theory-realize-it-gave-them-the-right-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the upcoming case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/21-1271.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Moore v. Harper<\/em><\/a>, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the term \u201cstate legislature\u201d in the U.S. Constitution\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/article-1\/section-4\/clause-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election clause<\/a> gives state legislatures specific power over election law that cannot be taken away in accordance with the doctrine of \u201cindependent state legislature theory.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the Supreme Court is asked to decide whether the independent state legislature theory applies to the Constitution\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/browse\/article-1\/section-4\/clause-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election clause<\/a>. The case asks the court to decide whether a state\u2019s judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the \u201cManner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives \u2026 prescribed \u2026 by the Legislature thereof\u201d and replace them with regulations of the state courts\u2019 own devising. The Constitution\u2019s election clause reads, \u201cThe Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Notably, the Framers considered an alternative election clause proposal, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quillproject.net\/resources\/resource_item\/54\/3126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pinckney Plan<\/a>,\u201d which would have said, \u201cEach State shall prescribe the time and manner of holding elections by the people\u2026\u201d and not use the term \u201clegislature.\u201d Pinckney\u2019s text was not adopted in the election clause.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist women\u2019s groups have responded by launching a hyperbolic campaign against the doctrine. League of Women Voters\u2019 CEO Virginia Kase Solom\u00f3n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwv.org\/newsroom\/press-releases\/league-women-voters-files-amicus-brief-moore-v-harper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a>, \u201cThe Independent State Legislature Theory is a dangerous, fringe ideology that leaves voters effectively defenseless from harmful election laws.\u201d But what these women\u2019s groups fail to mention is the U.S. Supreme Court relied on independent state legislature theory to grant women the right to vote over a century ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/19th-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">19th Amendment<\/a> to the U.S. Constitution says, \u201cThe right 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.\u201d On June 4, 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the proposed amendment, but in order for a proposed amendment to become part of the Constitution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/constitution\/article-v.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Article V<\/a> requires ratification by \u201cthree fourths of the several states.\u201d On Aug. 18, 1920, Tennessee became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/tennessee-women-s-history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">36th state<\/a> (of the union\u2019s then total 48 states) to ratify the 19th Amendment, satisfying the three-fourths requirement.<\/p>\n<p>But a few months later, in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/usrep\/usrep258\/usrep258130\/usrep258130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leser v. Garnett<\/a><\/em>, Oscar Leser filed a lawsuit to prevent women from registering to vote by challenging the validity of the amendment\u2019s ratification. He argued that the state constitutions of Tennessee and West Virginia did not grant their state legislatures the power to ratify. Without those states, the proposed 19th Amendment would not have sufficient support to satisfy the three-fourths requirement. To decide this question, the U.S. Supreme Court used independent state legislature theory. Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/constitution\/article-v.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Article V<\/a>, proposed amendments must be \u201cratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states.\u201d Because the framers specifically used the term \u201clegislature,\u201d the court <a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/usrep\/usrep258\/usrep258130\/usrep258130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held<\/a> that \u201cthe legislatures of Tennessee and of West Virginia had the power to adopt the resolutions of ratification.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The minimum number of ratifications was met, so the court <a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ll\/usrep\/usrep258\/usrep258130\/usrep258130.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">held<\/a> that the 19th Amendment \u201chas become valid to all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist women&#8217;s organizations are working tirelessly to end a legal theory that, when first applied, protected their right to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":1738941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}