"A naive reader of the text of the Constitution would think that racial minorities have voted since 1870 and that women have voted since 1920. That is true of women - there is no evidence of systematic subversion of the Nineteenth Amendment - but emphatically untrue of African-Americans." https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu...icle=1097&context=public_law_and_legal_theory David A. Strauss, "Do Consitutional Amendments Matter?" (emphasis added)
AHC: Bring about this "systematic subversion" of the 19th Amendment. Don't forget that some anti-suffragists (both male and female!) warned against women's suffrage in terms just about as apocalyptic as those used by white supremacists against African American suffrage--it would destroy women's traditional role, menace the family, etc. But unlike the white supremacists, they pretty much gave up after the Constitution was amended against them. Can anyone see any scenario where they do attempt to subvert women's suffrage after it becomes the law of the land?
AHC: Bring about this "systematic subversion" of the 19th Amendment. Don't forget that some anti-suffragists (both male and female!) warned against women's suffrage in terms just about as apocalyptic as those used by white supremacists against African American suffrage--it would destroy women's traditional role, menace the family, etc. But unlike the white supremacists, they pretty much gave up after the Constitution was amended against them. Can anyone see any scenario where they do attempt to subvert women's suffrage after it becomes the law of the land?