…when your local Historical Society’s annual luncheon is in celebration of the 19th Amendment.
I looked twice , thrice at the postmark and the date. Is it possible that Monroe County, Pa, sent this in 2025? Hasn’t any denizen of the Poconos (except me) heard that the 19th Amendment is currently about as popular as the 18th, at least among those Americans from whom we expect fealty to the will of the people?
This is touching, heartwarming, and makes me glad I live where I do. Come visit us on the Pocono Plateau—IF you dare!
Plenty of people, on this site and others, have advocated repeal of the 19th amendment. I just resent it. The Left wants to deny women even exist—and the Right thinks we shouldn’t have the vote. It’s demoralizing, if you’re a woman, that’s all.
OK, you made me look up the XIX Amendment, just to be sure I was not missing anything.
Now, I am (proudly) not a lawyer, but I find that Amendment to be uncomfortably short from a legal perspective (Think about the Billable Hours!) and genuinely quite ambiguous given today’s language.
“The 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.”
That may have made sense back in 1920, but there is no mention of who is having sex with whom – and we certainly don’t want people having sex in polling stations. There is not a single mention of men, women, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenders. Did States really all agree on what they were proposing when they put Amendment XIX on the table? A rewrite should definitely be a serious topic at the Historical Society’s luncheon!