Amendment XIX, Clause 2

Debates in Congress

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 9

  "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legis! a tion."

  The paragraph gives the words of the second section of the proposed article (OCR "legis! a tion"); its words "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate" appear in Section 2 of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 106

  excluded from -voting by the several States, and it goes further and pro vides that Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  The paragraph gives the words of the joint resolution, as the speaker describes what it "provides"; its words "power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation" appear in Section 2 of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• quoted bySuggested
  House, May 21, 1919, ¶ 290

  The last paragraph of the amendment provides "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." This provision either means what it says or it means nothing.

  The speaker quotes "The last paragraph of the amendment" proposed; its words appear in Section 2 of the Nineteenth Amendment.