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A failed argument for a citizen's right to vote.
In 1872, Virginia Minor sued a Missouri registrar for refusing to allow her to register to vote. She argued that the 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on women and that voting was a citizenship right. In Minor v. Happersett (1875), however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Constitution did not guarantee a citizen's right to vote and that states could restrict voting rights to men. |