PRINTER'S NO. 2131
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
405
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY KRUEGER, JUNE 14, 2019
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JUNE 14, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the centennial of the Commonwealth's ratification
of the 19th Amendment on June 24, 2019, and recognizing the
Justice Bell as a symbol of the suffrage cause.
WHEREAS, Passed by the Congress of the United States on June
4, 1919, and ratified by the Commonwealth on June 24, 1919, the
19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides
that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on account of sex"; and
WHEREAS, On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified
as approved by 36 state legislatures; and
WHEREAS, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified
by the United States Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby; and
WHEREAS, Millions of women voted in national elections for
the first time in 1920; and
WHEREAS, The social and political movement to secure equal
voting rights for women originated at the historic Seneca Falls,
New York Convention of 1848; and
WHEREAS, A resolution drafted there states that "it is the
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